Unknown Caudex - ID help please

[FaeLLe]

Hello all,

I got this caudex plant free off someone as they no longer wanted it. I guess it is also partially because they have no idea what it is! (The SO thinks it is a turnip...).

Appreciate any help you can give, even any idea what it remotely could be or where it comes from will help.

Thanks.

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[Tina]

You will need to wait for it to sprout, probably kedrostis

[FaeLLe]

This is her repotted into a 10 cm pot. Would really like to find out what it is :/

[Geoff Lovell]

Euphorbia trichadenia
https://www.bing.com/search?q=euphorbia ... 1&qs=n&sk=

[FaeLLe]

Euphorbia trichadenia
https://www.bing.com/search?q=euphorbia ... 1&qs=n&sk=

Thanks Geoff this just might be it! Hopefully some others can chip in as well.

[FaeLLe]

So the caudex is now in leaf, any idea what this could be please?

The leaf had some damage and gave white sap so probably a Euphorbia but it does not look like a Euphorbia Trichadenia.

[Geoff Lovell]

Another stab.
Petopentia natalensis, used to be called Fockea tugalensis.
Is there white sap when you pull a leaf off?

[Geoff Lovell]

By the way, if it is Petopentia then it is a Red Spider Magnet!

[ChrisR]

Fockea......maybe edulis?

[purzo]

The leaves and stems look very much like my Raphionacme procumbens, although the caudex does not really. Still, for what it's worth, that's my guess.

I understand it's an Asclepiad, hence the white sap.

Following on from Geoff's comment R. procumbens would be a mealy bug magnet if not RSM, so much so I almost chucked it out a few weeks ago after not checking it during the summer, the worst mealy bug infestation I have ever seen.