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Christ plant or Euphorbia Milii also called Crown of Thorns, is a sprawling evergreen shrub with succulent branches lined with long, sharp black thorns and sparsely leafed. Christ plant is a flowering plant native to Madagascar. The species name commemorates Baron Milius, once the governor of reunion who introduced the species to France in 1821. It is a circulant climbing shrub going to 1.8 meters tall with densely spiny stems, the stride slender spines up to three centimeter line help it scramble over other plants. The leaves are found mainly a new growth and are overweight up to 3.5 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters broad. The flowers are small subtended by a pair of conspicuous petal-like bracts variably red, pink or white up to 12 mm broad. This footage is part of the broadcast stoc