Devil's Backbone ( Euphorbia Tithymaloides)

Devil's Backbone (Scientific -Euphorbia Tithymaloides) has green and white variegated, fleshy, cordate leaves that may sometimes develop a rosy blush tint ,  It also has dramatic, colorful leaf bracts that look like slipper-shaped flowers, as well as unusual "crooked" yet symmetrical fleshy tubular stems. This has earned the plant many intriguing folk names including zig-zag plant, Christmas candle, fiddle flower, Persian lady slipper, Jacob's ladder, red bird flower, and Japanese poinsettia. The "flowers" are actually leaf bracts, they don't produce any fragrance,the bracts appear in summer, but do not last a very long time,though the bracts can be white or green, it is the red and bright pink ones that are most sought after and inspire the plant's many colorful folk names.

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