Euphorbia atropurpurea (purple spurge) is a succulent small tree or shrub, reaches heights of up to two meters and grows endemically (only there) on Tenerife.
Sowing instructions
The seeds can be soaked in water for a few hours before sowing. However, they also germinate without this treatment.
Euphorbia atropurpurea is a dark germinator, the sowing depth should be about one centimeter.
I used a mixture of peat-free herb soil and bird sand as substrate.
It took about four weeks at 23 to 28 °C for the first seeds to germinate.
The substrate should be kept evenly moist and must not dry out.
Once the seedlings reached a height of five centimetres, I repotted them in mineral substrate. In a mix based on pumice gravel.
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