Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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aka Mother of Thousands. Very easy plant, fast to grow, fast to spread. Each serrated leaf has a little plantlet on the end of each serration, and these easily fall off, blow away, and root wherever they land
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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I think these are Kalanchoe × houghtonii. Could be wrong of course. Daigremontiana has a larger somewhat pointy leaf. This is indeed what is passed off for this plant though. Perhaps if I could see the leaves I'd disagree with myself!! :lol:
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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abborean wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:02 am I think these are Kalanchoe × houghtonii. Could be wrong of course. Daigremontiana has a larger somewhat pointy leaf. This is indeed what is passed off for this plant though. Perhaps if I could see the leaves I'd disagree with myself!! :lol:
Hi abborean:
When I got my Kalanchoe daigremontiana from a nursery few years back, it had fairly large sized fleshy leaves. Till the time it stayed in the pot, was only getting couple of hours sunlight and was being watered regularly, leaves stayed big and fleshy. I have my house on a hill top. Couple of years back I decided to plant a few succulents in the rocks, giving them a more natural looking environment and Kalanchoe daigremontiana was one of them. I watered these plants only few time in the begining and then left them at their own to survive at a place where they were getting 7-8 hours of direct sun. After couple of years, as you can see in the photos below that were taken today, Kalanchoe daigremontiana plants are growing well without any care whatsoever. They have attained good height and are blooming profusely but the leaf size has drastically reduced and now they have tiny leaves that are hardly visible if you standing 10 ft away. If you ask me to compare, leaf size today is approximately 5 times smaller than the leaf size of the original plant.
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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This still looks like Kalanchoe × houghtonii to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe ... houghtonii
Your plant is very mature and the leaves you have are on the inflorescence. The plant needs to be restarted from a leaf cutting. I'm surprised there aren't a hundred volunteer plants all around this mature plant. If you were in the states I'd be glad to send you some of both taxa.
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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I somehow missed this post and replying after a year now. :oops:
Well these plants do throw lot of offsets that I am removing all the time. This particular plant, however, produces comparatively fewer offsets. May be it is due to the fact that there is hardly any soil where it is planted and it only gets watered when it rains but I am not sure.
Here is a relatively newer photo which shows slightly bigger leaves but I can't be sure now that it is Kalanchoe daigremontiana or Kalanchoe x houghtonii.
Thanks for your input :U
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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This is x houghtoni for me. In daigremontiana the leaves are longer, a bit wider and greener (less spotty).
Virtually everyone calls x houghtoni as daigremontiana though! Googling would fix this for skeptics but when a name is misidentified for so long it is tough to eradicate. Am pretty sure that Meangreen straightened me out on this subject. If so perhaps he can chime in.
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abborean wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:46 am This is x houghtoni for me. In daigremontiana the leaves are longer, a bit wider and greener (less spotty).
Virtually everyone calls x houghtoni as daigremontiana though! Googling would fix this for skeptics but when a name is misidentified for so long it is tough to eradicate. Am pretty sure that Meangreen straightened me out on this subject. If so perhaps he can chime in.
Agreed. Would really appreciate if Meangreen chimes in.
Do you think this one is digremontiana?
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Re: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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Yes, that looks more like it. It was one of the first succulents I ever grew and when I first saw it I was hooked. I thought it the most amazing plant ever.
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Yes and agree with Mick. Great and easy plant.
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Great.... and thanks for the input guys :U
Do we need to have two separate threads now? One for Kalanchoe × houghtonii and the other for Kalanchoe daigremontiana?
Thanks
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