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What colour would you say

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Ergates said:
    Reddish coral, or corally red!
    I concur
    Devon.
  • Not pink
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    pansyface said:
    There must be a Pantone number to describe it.
    My brother buys me one of those every year for Christmas - delish! 😂

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    What colour would you say then Mike?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Pffft, call yourself gardeners?  Not one right answer!

    It was a trick question though as the flowers are yellow. The pink/red modified leaves are known as bracts.

    The plant is a Euphorbia Milli, as you may know the Euphorbia family is vast and very varied, this one is like a cactus or succulent. I picked it up in Egypt, but that's another little story......
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Doh!!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Ha, dumb on both counts for me then. Well done pansyface, I had to look Pantone up  :)
    As a consolation prize what happened in Egypt then Mike. I might regret asking. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • One other which has bracts which you may be more familiar with is the Poinsettia.

    When we used to take holidays, they were in Winter, this usually means travelling a long way to find the sun and often whilst it was hot to us, we were in another countries Winter. This means the trees had many dried seed pods on them which I used to bring home and grow for fun. They always outgrew the greenhouse or windowboard, ended up outside and died, but it was interesting for a while.

    I was once a few cocktails in on a sun lounger by the pool in Egypt looking at their garden. There were loads of these little Euphorbia sticks in the borders. I idly plucked at the one by my side and it came out. What they were doing is growing one big 'Mother plant', cutting off its branches and putting them in the ground. I figured they wouldn't miss one so carefully wrapped it up and brought it home. That was 2.5 years ago now and it's doing really well as you can see.



    This was taken midsummer when it was very hot. Out of interest some cacti and succulents go purple when it's too hot for them as you can see on the Euphorbias leaves.
    If you have a greenhouse or sunny windowboard in the house then they give some good all year round colour and are quite easy to grow.
    Don't go pinching one though, it's not good.  :o


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