What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. So today we're going to talk about something that just went live on the epic gardening website and that would be the coral cactus or as we like to call it the Frankenstein of the succulent world.

Now it's really a weird little cactus, it's sort of a melding of two different succulent

varieties so it looks extremely unusual for a category of plants that already looks unusual, that

being the succulent category of plants.

So let's go ahead and talk about it.

Its origins are in Africa. It's the euphoria genus.

And it's a surprisingly large family of about 2,000 succulent plants. But what's interesting

about the coral cactus is that it's actually two different types of euphoria

Which makes it a bit more complex. It's one of those grafted succulent plants

So the base is usually euphoria nerepholia, which looks basically like a cactus except for it has these large wide oval leaves.

But grafted to the top will be a crest from a different plant and that's going to usually be euphoria like Tea,

often the crustata variety which has this rippled large leave that forms a fan-like shape. Now rarely it can produce some flowers

but to be honest it's kind of small and really not much to look at usually only

happens on older plants often not at all honestly it's an unusual look at

all. honestly it's an unusual enough plant that you don't really need it to

flower to get some of the benefits of just the aesthetic

beauty or interest of it. One thing to know though is that the latex or the interest of it.

One thing to know though is that the latex or the sap of coral cactus is toxic and might be quite dangerous.

It's white, it's thick.

So just do not touch it in any way.

Just I would use gloves at all times if you're going to go ahead and handle the plant just to be safe.

Now you might be wondering why I even grow something like that.

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