Wood Spurge

I had planned a walk for today, but the cold weather with a cold northerly breeze persuaded me to stay at home. So back to the shots I took last Saturday in the Homestead Park, and I chose this one of Wood Spurge to post today.

Wood spurge is, as its name suggests, commonly found in woodlands, particularly damp and coppiced woods. Its attractive, greeny-yellow flowers can be seen from April to June. The greeny-yellow flowers of Wood spurge have no petals or sepals, but are held in cup-shaped bracts and appear in clusters. The upright stems carry long, narrow leaves, often tinged with red. It is an evergreen.

Ian

[Monica]

Beautiful shot! I had never seen this plant before

[Peter Dulis]

so unusual

[Margaret Brown]

Lovely capture

[julia]

I am guessing it is a Euphobia.. Great colour in the garden but can take over..

[carol white]

A lovely capture

[bruni]

Sounds like could require some pruning during the year.

[Vesna]

Unusual plant.

[Lisa]

Lovely coloured plant

[gloria jones]

Great capture and details

[Renee Salamon]

Wow really unusual - and thank you, I never heard of wood spurge before

[bkb in the city]

Beautiful

[Kathy A]

Wow, this is very unusual

[Fisher Family]

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Thank you all for your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated.

As Julia guessed, it is a variety of Euphorbia - Euphorbia amygdaloides - and it is quite unusual to see this in our area. It is more common in southern England. It appears in several small patches in different parts of the park and is an attractive feature. I've not noticed the gardeners spending much time on this plant, so I'm not sure how quickly it spreads.

Ian

[carol white]

@fishers .It does spread quickly.I have some in the garden, courtesy of my next door neighbour.It just suddenly appeared.

[Fisher Family]

@carolmw

Thank you for that Carol. Fortunately there is quite a large team of gardeners to look after this park so I'm sure they will be keeping an eye on it. The park is owned, managed and maintained by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation rather than the local authority, so it gets the kind of care it needs.

Ian

[Pyrrhula]

Saw those yesterday in a nice garden I`ve visit. Many of them

[Fisher Family]

@pyrrhula

I think these are attractive plants.

Ian