Biodiversity
Candelabra euphorbia
Euphorbia candelabrum
Photo: Haplochromis, via Wikimedia Commons (resized). CC BY-SA 3.0.
The candelabra euphorbia is a tall tree-like succulent. Driberg wrote that in Lango the hollowed stem of this tree, called opopong, was made into the long war trumpet, the apel. A thinner, pipe-stem euphorbia, oligo, was more common among the Lango, “as it has a ritualistic significance”.
Habitat
Dry bush and rocky ground.