Firestick Pencil Plant

Add or remove soil as needed.

Firestick pencil plant.

Pencil succulents including euphorbia tirucalli are toxic to humans dogs and cats. They can cause serious intestinal injuries and skin injuries. The pencil cactus is a large plant native to africa and india. However it can also be kept to a more moderate height of 6 8 feet when kept as a houseplant.

You should place the fire sticks succulent carefully when transplanting. It is a rugged succulent plant that can grow to be over thirty feet high in the wild. Euphorbia tirucalli or pencil cactus is a tropical plant that may become 30 feet 9 m tall in habitat. 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.

Care of pencil cactus is minimal. Pencil cactus euphorbia tirucalli is a member of the euphorbia family it is a tropical plant and is native to africa and india. How do you transplant a fire stick plant. 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.

The succulent has clumps of pencil like stems exhibiting an orangey red. Firestick cactus or euphorbia tirucalli rosea is also known as sticks of fire sticks on fire or pencil tree. Another common name for pencil cactus is milk bush it is a succulent plant but not a real cactus like other euphorbia s milky white stem sap from the pencil cactus also turns out which can irritate the skin. Information on the pencil cactus plant.

Often referred to as a cactus the plant is actually a succulent that presents new. How to grow firestick plant euphorbia tirucalli pencil cactus aka euphorbia tirucalli or et is not a cactus. Are fire stick plants poisonous to dogs and cats. The plant is ideal for sunny warm spots indoors or greenhouse growing.

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.