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Pictum Croton This decorative plant belongs to a large variety of Codiaeum Variegatum, a very formal way of naming all crotons and that is its most popular name. It has regularly narrow leaves with tiny yellow spots over green background. Another popular names for this specific plant species are gold dust croton and punctatum aureum croton. A massive amount of foliage from this plant named Gold Dust Croton which could be useful for certain types of presentations with text on the leaves. Note that all the photographs in this blog are made on purpose to avoid mixing two or more leaves of different species. Considering that the main reason for these images is to give you material for artwork with foliage of a specific plant, you also can use it for studying its visual on garden planning. The height of this plant is about 2 meters. Image to help you compare two similar crotons considering its same patterns in color and relative size, but different shapes of their foli...
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Crown of Thorns Plant


Euphorbia Milii - The thorny plant

Their thorns make this plant ideal for fences when the main purpose is keeping away people or some animals from determined areas. There are several popular terms to name this prickliy plant such as crown of thorns, spina-christi and Christ thorn crown. Its formal, scientific or Latinized name is Euphorbia Milii.
Here we have a plant that isn't considered so much ornamental, althouth we can admit that it could be used as barrier of plant as a thorn live fence and, at the same time, diplaying its beaty of dark green leaves and red flowers as decorative.


Close-up image of the crown of thorn flowers viewed between its leaves and thorny stems. Just this image could help someone interested in studying it cluster of red-pink flowers and the veins of the leaves.


Great shot of a dense but clearly well-defined stems and thorns of a bunch of Euphorbia Milii plants. If someone interesting in showing up the great potential that this species has as a real thorny fence this photo will be a handy one.


This last image of this selection show up in details the density of its prickly thorns of the stem, how the leaves grows in between its barbed sharp spines of this prickly bush, named in the scientific form as Euphorbia Milii plant.
Location: Praça Carlos Gomes - Liberdade, São Paulo - SP, 01501-040, Brazil

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