Euphorbia characias growing wild on the Island of Sardinia, Italy. Long, narrow, bluish leaves are leathery, persistent, and held in tight, symmetrical whorls. Huge clusters of yellow green bracts are produced from late spring through fall. Sun to part shade, little summer watering, good drainage, very frost hardy.
Floral bracts are almost entirely white with a green stripe.
Emmer Green' The most robust variegated form. Elegant swirls of blue foliage along stems to 3 ft. topped in late winter with large conical heads of chartreuse flowers. An astoundingly good seedling strain originally collected by John Fielding in Portugal, with stems carrying densely arranged, velvet-cloaked foliage of bluish gray and heads of very distinctive brownish golden flowers to 3 ft. Vivipara' A name referring to the occasional tendency of some plants to produce new shoots that are like small plantlets on the flower spikes past their prime. All content copyrighted by source or author, and not to be reproduced without authorization.