Life would succ without succulents

Species: Euphorbia glubosa For my first post, I have chosen to share my beautiful Euphorbia globosa .  I am going to begin by going on a brief tangent about plant naming (because it’s cool).  A plants scientific name has two parts:  The genus name.    The genus name describes a group of plants that share common characteristics (and usually a common ancestor). The specific name. The specific name is what identifies the individual species. So in the case of the species Euphorbia globuse : Euphorbia is the genus, which contains approx. 2,100 species, all sharing a milky sap.   Globose is the specific name, which when combined with Euphorbia identifies the species. The Euphorbia genus was named after Euphorbus, a Greek physician to king Juba II, who discovered a euphorbia plant in the Atlas Mountains that had medical properties and used it as a laxative! ‘Globose’ is derived from the Latin ‘globosus’, which means a ball, spher...