I own a very rare euphorbia virosa from South Africa. It looks like a cactus but it’s not. I treat virosa with kid gloves and grow it separately from the rest of my plants. Just brushing across the ...

These fast-growing succulent plants are fun thanks to their pencil-thick branches and striking, skeletal shape. Learn how to propagate them with this article.

(This week Succulentophile gives way to an article by Peter Bangayan.) The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small, ...

Dr. Herman Schwartz, an oncologist who spent years working with children dying of leukemia, sought a weekend antidote to the emotional stress of his vocation. He found it through cultivating the ...

The pencil tree — sometimes called pencil cactus, though it’s unrelated to cactuses – is the world’s most common succulent Euphorbia. According to Fred Dortort, author of ‘’Succulent Plants of the ...

The genus Euphorbia is a large one, with a worldwide distribution. The plants in it are extremely diverse, ranging from tiny garden weeds to trees. quite a few of them are succulent. Some of the ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q: In answer to the question about ...

Bring the warmth of the desert indoors this winter when it's too cold to garden outside.

The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small insignificant flowers and most exude a milky sap, which in most plants are highly ...