Euphorbia Species, Moroccan Mound, Official Spurge, Resin Spurge

Resin spurge is the hottest chemical, called resiniferatoxina, found in Morocco. Resiniferatoxin has a Scoville rating a thousand times ...Read Morehotter than pure capsaicin from hot peppers, or over 16 billion Scoville units!

Resin Spurge? Who calls Moroccan Mound, Resin Spurge? Hahaha.

This has proven to be a very cold hardy succulent Euphorbia. My plant has been in the ground 15 years & has survived temps down to 15 deg...Read Morerees with no problems. It has even been covered in snow! My garden is in Hesperia, CA at 3500 feet zone 8.

Mine is in its second year and has just been potted up in size. No problems with our rainy cool winters in a container. The color seems t...Read Moreo change with lighting..sometimes a nice aquagreen with red spines. I did notice that even though it had completely covered a 6" pot in stems,when I knocked it out of it's pot..seemed to have a very fine root system. Like what you would find with fat plants that grow on rocks in habitat...none of that finger roots spilling out of drainholes like many succulents.