🌱 Morphology
  It looks like a plant architecture sculpted in copper and red wine. Its upright and perfectly geometric stems rise to form an almost candelabra-like structure, while the green color of the original species is transformed here into shades of bronze, purple-red, and burgundy. Among the small spines appear reddish leaves that, during active growth, add even more color to this extraordinary living sculpture.

It is a shrubby succulent with an upright and highly branched growth habit, which can reach approximately 1.8 m in height in cultivation. The stems are fleshy, with a triangular or quadrangular cross-section, featuring three or four prominent ridges and segments measuring about 10–25 cm. Small pairs of reddish or brownish-red spines, approximately 5–6 mm long, appear on the ridges, from which the leaves grow. The leaves are lanceolate to obovate, deciduous, and can take on magenta or intense red hues. The stems show green, bronzed, purple, or reddish areas, often forming lighter-colored V-shaped patterns. It produces white latex.

🌍 Distribution, habitat, and family
It is not an independent natural population, but a horticultural form of Euphorbia trigona. The species is native to Central tropical Africa. It belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family. The rubra form is maintained in cultivation for its characteristic reddish pigmentation.

❄️ Temperature — USDA Zone 11b
It tolerates minimum temperatures of up to 7 ºC. It is a cold-sensitive Euphorbia and must be protected from frost; during winter, it is especially important to combine low temperatures with dry substrate. 

☀️ Lighting
During active growth, intense lighting is recommended, approximately 18–25 mol/m²/day of PAR DLI. Good light availability enhances the intensity of the reddish coloration, but specimens grown in shade must be gradually acclimated before exposure to direct sunlight to prevent burning.

💧 Growth cycle and watering
Winter dormancy. During the active period, it is recommended to water abundantly and allow the substrate to dry out completely before watering again. In autumn and winter, watering is gradually reduced, and the plant is kept practically dry when temperatures are low. The leaves may fall during dormancy and reappear with new growth.

🌸 Flowering
Although it may produce small pale green cyathia in spring and summer, flowering is very uncommon in cultivation and lacks ornamental appeal compared to the spectacular coloration and architecture of the stems.

🌿 Nutrition
During the active growth period, a fertilizer specifically designed for succulents is recommended, with a high content of assimilable calcium, such as Desert CHOICE® Succulents, applied once a month when watering.

This is an inimitable xerophyte cultivated in Madrid in a high-tech square pot with substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.

📏 The sizes of our collection xerophytes are as follows:

S -> 9cm x 9cm

M-> 14cm x 14 cm

L->16cm x 16 cm

* As this is an online purchase, the appearance of the sent specimen may vary slightly from the product image. The photo description specifies the plant's measurements, but these may also vary slightly because it is a living being! Each of the plants at Desert CITY has unique characteristics.