Baseball Plant, Klipnoors, Sea Urchin (Euphorbia obesa)

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EricInSF San Francisco, CA(Zone 10a) Dec 15, 2005

Baseball Plant, Klipnoors, Sea Urchin
Euphorbia obesa

Photographed at the 2005 San Francisco Cactus and Succulent Society Show and Sale

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kniphofia Cramlington, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Dec 15, 2005

Lovely photo!

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baseballplant Monterey, CA Aug 01, 2010

I bought an obesa three or four days go, and a day or two later I noticed its tiny flowers. Quite a bit like the ones in your photo, but not the same.

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Aug 01, 2010

Because you have a plant which only sets male flowers! While the other photo shows a female plant.

Jordi

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baseballplant Monterey, CA Aug 01, 2010

Wow! Thanks! (And, here I was, thinking maybe I was the only person to look closely enough to see these little tiny flowers! Silly idea!)

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baseballplant Monterey, CA Aug 01, 2010

So, what function does a flower that small serve? Is there anything that can find and pollinate such a tiny flower?

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Aug 01, 2010

You know, the yellow stuff you see on the flower of your plant are ripe pollen sacks with pollen. So the flower itself is not THAT small, at least 1/10 of an inch in diameter or even a little more!
Euphorbia flowers often are smelling very sweet so even the blindest (and smallest) insect is attracted to pollinate it.

Jordi

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