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Kalanchoe (/ ˌ k æ l ə ŋ ˈ k oʊ. iː / KAL-əng-KOH-ee), [2] [3] (also called "kalanchöe" or "kalanchoë"), is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa.
Leaves Flowers. Kalanchoe sexangularis is a succulent, perennial that reaches heights of 20 to 100 centimeters. Its single or few simple, upright, round, reddish shoots are somewhat two-to-six-sided and arise from a woody base. The fleshy leaves are more or less stalked.
Kalanchoe pinnata, commonly known as cathedral bells, air plant, life plant, miracle leaf, [2] Goethe plant, [3] and love bush, [4] is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. It is a popular houseplant and has become naturalized in tropical and subtropical areas.
Kalanchoe delagoensis, formerly known as Bryophyllum delagoense [1] and commonly called mother of millions or chandelier plant, [3] is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. Like other members of Bryophyllum (now included in Kalanchoe [ 2 ] ), it is able to propagate vegetatively from plantlets that develop on its leaf margins.
The scallop-edged and ovate leaves are arranged in an opposite/subopposite fashion, are simple in type with crenate margins and an oblong shape. [14] The arrangement of the veins in a leaf can be absent or very hard to see; the leaf blades are 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long. [14] Parts of Kalanchoe blossfeldiana are poisonous if ingested. [2]
Kalanchoe daigremontiana can spread by both seeds and by plantlets dropped from its leaves. Kalanchoe daigremontiana has an umbrella-like terminal inflorescence (a compound cyme) of small bell-shaped, grayish pink (or sometimes orange) flowers. Flowering is, however, not an annual event and occurs sporadically if at all on some shoots.
Cut the spike two or three nodes below the lowest flower, and the orchid may bloom again in as soon as 8 to 12 weeks. “There’s a 50% chance a new stalk will grow from the old one,” Kondrat says.
These plantlets arise from mitosis of meristematic-type tissue in notches in the leaves. Nowadays, bryophyllums are naturalized in many parts of the tropics and subtropics , and deliberately cultivated for their attractiveness or for their interesting reproduction as a vegetative reproductive plant.