It grows well in well-draining, gritty soil or cactus potting mix. Provides good sunlight at least 3-5 hours of the day, and turn it regularly so that your plant doesn’t begin to grow lopsided.
Devils backbone plant care outdoors how to#
How to care and grow Devil’s Backbone (Euphorbia tithymaloides)? Light: Synonyms: Pedilanthus tithymaloides, Tithymalus tithymaloides.Ĭommon Names: Devil’s Backbone, Redbird Flower, Buck Thorn, Cimora Misha, Christmas Candle, Fiddle Flower, Ipecacuahana, Jacob’s Ladder, Japanese Poinsettia, Jew’s Slipper, Jewbush, Milk Hedge, Myrtle-Leaved Spurge, Padus-Leaved Clipper Plant, Red Slipper Spurge, Redbird Cactus, Slipper Flower, Slipper Plant, Slipper Spurge, Timora Misha, Zig Zag Plant. The plant generally flowers in mid-spring. The seed pod is about 7.6 mm long and 8.9 mm wide, and ovoid in shape The male pedicel is hairy, while the female is glabrous. The floral leaves are bifid (split into two parts) and ovate, while the involucral bracts are bright red, irregularly acuminate in shape, and about 1.1 to 1.3 mm in length with a long, thin tube. The plant terminates in a dichotomous cyme, with a peduncle supporting each flower.
The leaves are glabrous (smooth) and acuminate in shape, with entire (smooth) edges. Each leaf is sessile (attaching directly to the plant), and about 3.6 to 7.6 cm in length.
The leaf is a simple angiosperm leaf, arranged oppositely on the stem. This erect shrub can grow to 6 to 8 feet in height and generally is about 18 to 24 inches in width. Devil’s Backbone (Euphorbia tithymaloides) is perennial succulent spurge.
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