EUPHORBIA PSEUDOBURUANA

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Peter René Oscar Bally and Susan Carter in 1982. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania, growing in a well drained soil with some water and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to eight centimetres in diameter, the branches up to 50 centimetres long.

The genera name; Euphorbia dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The species name means 'false buruana ' another species of the Euphorbia.