Banana Torch
Euphyllia glabrescens. Intermediate to keep, typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 1 surveyed shop on 2026-10-19.
Bright yellow to yellow-gold tentacles with tips that photograph mint to pale blue under reef lighting. The yellow against the blue tip is the look. Length varies: one torch guide calls the Banana's tentacles short and stubby, but farms sell and photograph it with long ones, so length will not tell you which torch it is.
Before you buy one
Yellow with blue tips; one torch guide's rule is no blue tips, not a Banana. Genuinely yellow rather than gold-brown. A tired Banana browns out first at the base, so check where the tentacle meets the head. A Holy Grail Banana is the premium version of the same coral and carries neon green at the base of its tentacles; a plain Banana's tentacles run warm yellow and gold without it, so that green is what the price difference is for. Green at the mouth is a different thing: at least one shop describes its plain Bananas with green mouth colouration.
Keeping Euphyllia
Space to sweep, because the tentacles reach further than they look. Banana Torch is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
What Banana Torch goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per head and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One head is one polyp of a branching LPS. A five-head piece is divided by five before it is compared to anything. Nothing on this page is for sale. The survey found it at 1 of the 106 shops read on 2026-10-19. A range publishes from 3 shops up, so 2 more would have to list it before a figure appears here. One shop's asking price is that shop's opinion rather than a market.
Easily confused with
- Indo Gold Torch: Rich golden-yellow tentacles, most often tipped mauve or paler, where a Banana is a clearer yellow with mint to blue tips. Length does not separate them.