Stick Cactus Plant

I have this fire stick cactus outside in full sun for the past few days.

Stick cactus plant.

Though it is a succulent and not a true cactus pencil is an excellent cactus houseplant variety that provides a distinctive shape within an indoor landscape. How long does it usually take for these guys to color up. Fire sticks can grow to 20 or 30 feet tall with attractive red tips making it an excellent. Often referred to as a cactus the plant is actually a succulent that presents new.

The plant is ideal for sunny warm spots indoors or greenhouse growing. There are a few little leaves on top that are red but the plant in its entirety is still totally green. The plant is mistaken for a cactus quite often as it resembles a dense cactus plant without the spines. The firestick succulent is also named pencil cactus stick cactus fire plant pencil plant and sticks on fire pictures of the firestick plant show how it gets its name.

Care of pencil cactus is minimal. Cut or break off old green branches to. Firestick cactus or euphorbia tirucalli rosea is also known as sticks of fire sticks on fire or pencil tree. The firestick plant pencil cactus or euphorbia tirucalli is a type of succulent not a cactus.

As long as you know you have the red variety don t worry. The commonly called pencil cactus euphorbia tirucalli is a member of the euphorbia family another common name for the pencil cactus is milkbush due to the milky white irritating sap or latex the plant releases when the stems are broken. The pencil cactus is a large plant native to africa and india. The succulent plant commonly called fire sticks or sticks on fire is botanically known as euphorbia tirucalli v.