56 photographs › At a glance
- Jan, shaded
- Feb, shaded
- Mar, shaded
- Apr
- May, under 5 mm of rain
- Jun, under 5 mm of rain
- Jul, under 5 mm of rain
- Aug, under 5 mm of rain
- Sep, under 5 mm of rain
- Oct, under 5 mm of rain
- Nov
- Dec, shaded
Summary
Euphorbia larica is a semi-succulent shrub or subshrub native to southern Iran and the south-eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula (the U.A.E., Oman, and Yemen). In the United Arab Emirates and Oman it is commonly known as isbuq.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Euphorbia larica", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Euphorbia
Euphorbia is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Euphorbia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Euphorbia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “semisucculent subshrub or shrub”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (104 mm of 135 mm) falls in December to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 20.1 °C against a yearly mean of 26.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Rain
135 mm in the median year at the habitat, 104 mm of it December to March. Wettest month March at 35 mm, driest month June at 1 mm; 6 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 103 mm to 201 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 148 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 135 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 49 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 8.2 °C, the absolute minimum 4.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 46.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 13.3 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 10.2 °C to 18.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 38.0 °C in June (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 8.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 39 to 56% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -82 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Group. Listed under the genus Euphorbia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “semisucculent subshrub or shrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 22 °C in Jan to 38 °C in Jun; mean nightly low from 13 °C in Jan to 29 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 135 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Mar. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 109 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 4.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 46.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 22 / 19–23 | 24 / 21–25 | 27 / 24–29 | 32 / 29–35 | 37 / 33–40 | 38 / 34–42 | 37 / 34–41 | 36 / 32–40 | 35 / 32–39 | 32 / 30–35 | 28 / 24–30 | 24 / 21–25 |
| Night °C | 13 / 10–18 | 14 / 12–19 | 17 / 15–21 | 21 / 19–25 | 25 / 23–29 | 28 / 25–30 | 29 / 25–31 | 28 / 24–30 | 26 / 22–29 | 23 / 19–27 | 19 / 16–24 | 15 / 12–20 |
| Rain mm | 18 / 11–27 | 34 / 18–39 | 35 / 23–43 | 10 / 8–21 | 3 / 2–9 | 1 / 0–13 | 4 / 3–25 | 2 / 1–20 | 2 / 0–6 | 4 / 1–5 | 5 / 2–6 | 17 / 10–28 |
| DLI | 28 / 26–32 | 33 / 32–36 | 39 / 38–42 | 46 / 45–47 | 49 / 49–50 | 47 / 46–48 | 44 / 42–45 | 43 / 41–44 | 40 / 40–41 | 37 / 36–39 | 31 / 30–34 | 26 / 25–30 |
| RH % | 56 / 50–58 | 55 / 47–57 | 50 / 44–55 | 43 / 39–51 | 39 / 35–49 | 42 / 37–50 | 47 / 41–56 | 49 / 42–59 | 48 / 40–57 | 47 / 40–55 | 52 / 46–56 | 56 / 50–58 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).
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Also known as Euphorbia masirahensis; Tirucalia larica. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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