AARTI: Euphorbia and cacti are two different animals... ([?])
they arise in different continents they either have ( euphorbia) or not have (cacti) milky sap... ( that sap is often pro-inflammaotory or downright deadly)... the thorns are not truly arising out of a specific organ on the skin of the green bark... often its an appendage to leaf... as in this plant you have in cacti they are specific areas called areoles on the skin of the cacti that give rise to the thorns ... and I personally would like to think that the cacti thorns are very symmetrically arranged , even invoking the sunflower mathematical model of design... related to the sacred geometry... euphorbias that I have ... can have symmetrically placed thorns but no real mathematical modelling that I have seen... most important is the sap... the sap in some euphorbias have been used in AYURVEDIC medicine as source of strong alkali capable of cutting thru (slowly albeit) scarred walls of abscess etc... Your euphorbia seems to be .... I wish I knew Hopefully somebody would I typed tis thrre days ago ... saved it in draft hoping someone would over the week end... but... may be they are busy with diwqali prepn... Usha di = On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > A cactus seen on 26/1/2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. > Height was about 6-8 feet. > It was really amazing to see a Sunbird make a nest in the prickles. > Id please. > Aarti > > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
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