Euphorbia candelabrum

Lake Mburo National Park
September 2013

just a note, Euphorbia are completely unrelated with cactus.

Yes, but they're called cactus colloquially because of the spines.

Maybe, but it's the first time that I read it. It sounds like "orca fish" or "flying fox-bird".

Or like flying fox?

Or Mountain Chicken, Sand Fish, Horned Toad, Koala Bear, Flying Lemur, Marsupial Mouse, Tasmanian Tiger/Wolf, Sea Lion, or Guinea Pig?



Hix

Some of these names are not much used and usually people dislike them (Koala bear, instead just Koala). But most of them are widely used. Euphorbia cactus is much less used than any of them, I never saw it before. Everybody call them just "Spurges" (with some exceptions, like Pasque flower), or use the scientific "Euphorbia".

Anyway... these are only common names. So, no rules, no chances to be valid or invalid. Everybody can call an organism like he want

do like it when people post pictures of plants on here and euphorbia is a plant that really excites me (I have 3 in my greenhouse )

Quite correct in everything you said (except for two things), I was merely pointing out that there are many similar names in common usage.

The two exceptions - Flying Fox, Mountain Chicken, Sand Fish, Horned Toad, Sea Lion and Guinea Pig are all in very common usage; and in Uganda at least, "Euphorbia Cactus" is the common name there, and it's what the local Parks & Wildlife Rangers call it too.

However, you'll see I've changed the title of the image to it's botanical name.



Hix