![]() But nature has her own ways and I was very surprised to see a purple sunbird extracting nectar from it… Lesson learnt □ I was fairly sure that no bird would come near these flowers. Whenever I used to see the tiny flowers on these plants growing at home I used to wonder whether they had any nectar in them. The Variegated Devil’s backbone ( Euphorbia tithymaloides or Pedilanthus tithymaloides)- this is a plant with a milky sap, originally from Central America. I was planning to plant a cutting of the plant.Įxtracting Nectar from an unlikely plant…: ![]() – I do know that it is “non-browseable” so we had a line of these plants near the barbed wire fence thro which the goats used to try to eat the marigold plants at Alto-Chicalim in Goa (off Vasco.) This may sound hilarious, but may be it is so poisonous that it will straight away lead you to heaven, hence it is named that way!!! and of course the stem is zigzag like a ladder. – Jacob’s ladder is actually a mythological ladder which leads to heaven. – I have also heard it called as Jacob’s Ladder. – Its called backbone may be just because of its structure which is zigzag and similar to our backbone when we curve down and devil’s may be because it is poisonous. ![]() ![]() – This plant is commonly known as devils backbone. Kew Plant List is Euphobia tithymaloides L. The synonyms are as follows: ![]()
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