EUPHORBIA TABORAENSIS

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Arne Hässler in 1931. It is found in Tanzania, growing in a well drained soil with some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can grow to seven centimetres in diameter, the whole plant up to 30 centimetres height. The flowers are yellow to bronze.

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 from the the occurrence in Tabora, Tanzania. And its flower from Duorou.me.