Euphorbia tuberculata

Description

Euphorbia tuberculatais a medusoid looking succulent Euphorbia with an almost completely buried primary shoot with radiating tubercled branches. It slowly forms a rounded low-growing spineless rosette up to 60 cm tall and up to 75 cm wide.
The fleshy root, merges into the underground primary stem to form a stout obconic caudex producing many branches radiating from a central tuberculate growing point. It is a specialized organ for water storage and grows wholly or partly buried in the ground.