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Please Identify Plant with Yellow Blooms and Stick-like Branches.

Euphorbia tirucalli

Ask the Expert: we are trying to identify this plant
This plant has stick type branches with tiny bottle like ends before the flowers. The first flowers were pink, these are yellow. Have you seen anything like this? Jim

Flower Shop Network Plant Expert Reply:
It looks like you have one of the many different culitvars of euphorbia tirucalli.

Euphorbia tiruis commonly referred to as pencil tree, firestick, finger tree, pencil euphorbia. The cultivars of euphorbia tircalli are light loving plants and need all the sun or light that you can give them. They can not tolerate freezing temperatures and therefore are used as houseplants in areas in zone 9 and above. These highly drought tolerant plants should only be watered when dry.

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Comments

  1. This is not, as was stated above, Euphorbia tirucalli. It is, in fact, Hatiora salicornioides. Native to Brazil, also sometimes called Rhipsalis salicornioides. It is an epiphytic cactus and should be treated more like your average houseplant than a desert cactus. It likes a free draining soil mix, water whenever the soil surface seems dry a half inch down and bright light with a couple hours of sun. I grow mine in an eastern window.

  2. Thank you so much Adam for helping us with this identification.

  3. Actually, that ID is incorrect. That’s Hatiora salicornioides, Drunkard’s Dream plant.
    http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55382/

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