I need help

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:24 pm

Help me, please, I have been looking for the species and name of this plant. It may have came from a package of cacti and succulent seeds i purchased and planted last year. i am not to sure. I will say that it is a wierd plant.

lets see its got a stem that reminds me of a succulent, kinda like a rosette, full of liquid. It has two leaves at the base and from there two above it and on up..(hard to discribe, i know theres a word for the growing pattern to it but i can't think of it right now).
each leave has a rosette look to their underside and a cactus look to their top sides. at the tip of each leaf theres a up to four sets of small inward curving spikes all the way up the plant. Then at the top of the plant it produces little off spring that fall off the leaves when they are big or mature enough. they also have aireal roots..
So the offspring or offsets are easily transplantable and grow pretty fast.. theres another speaciallty of the plant, the plant will let you know when it need to be cut and replanted. speacial parts will just start growing roots off the side and then you can cutt it and it grows almost without any help.. Then if one of the leaves fall off It Too can sprout roots and strat a new plant and have more offsets.
Its crazy.
It so far is 7-8 inches tall and i have already got three plants from it..

Also, some of the off sets are a varigated color and depending on where you grow them the thive differntly. I grow my momma one (what i call her) in the west window and she loves it. grows tall though. i have one in the south window, its varigated and makes more offsets quicker.
I have one now in the north window and i am still to learn what that direction of sun light will help the plant do..
I could only get these two pic. for my camera kinda Stinks..lol..

well i hope theres enough detail there to find out what it is i have.

if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask.
i would like to know what i have growing.
Its a Beautiful plant thats for sure

Thanks for any help

Jennifer

7-8 inches tall
propergate: offsets from leaves, leaves themselves, cuttings from anywhere.
flowers:???
likes to be moist.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:34 pm

Hello SQ, welcome to the forum,
That looks like Kalanchoe crenato- daigremontiana

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:58 pm

Do you know of anywhere online i could see Kalanchoe crenato- daigremontiana??? Is it on the cactiguide.com?

you know what you may be right, cause i do remember a Kalanchoe on the back of the seed package.

thanks

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:18 am

Yes,
your not going to see it on the cacti guide because it's not a cactus,but it is a succulent.
Have a look here.
http://www.lapshin.org/succulent/

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:24 am

Okay your right it is a species of Kalanchoe. i know that much..lol.. now i am gonna see if the rest is the exact name of the plant..

i found alot of pictures here:
http://www.lapshin.org/succulent/

I found out more info. on this site:

http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/K/Kalancho ... p#MoreInfo

even though i haven't found the exact plant i have but i came far enough and found out all i need to know:)
thanks so much Tony

very outstanding performance

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:25 am

wow, that was wierd..lol.. you posted as i was writing and we both found a good site..lol..

hablu · Post by **hablu** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:01 am

Hi Jennifer, it sure is a beautiful plant, but don't place is near other plants. Soon your pots will be overcrowded with little babies of this Kalanchoe. It breeds hundreds of little ones on the edges of the leaves. To see that is quite a miracle, but you can't get rid of them ever. So: isolate this (again wonderful) plant. greets Harry

ps. 1. Welcome to Cactiguide and 2. this is not a cactus, but a succulent.

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:13 am

Thanks,

I will keep that in mind, i already figured it out to be invasive..lol

yes i am proud of that plant for some reason

and thanks for the welcome. I am sure i will have Plenty more questions. I own a moderate amount of cactus and succulents. So i figured that it was a succulent.

Also i found out my Kalanchoe is a serratum

Kalanchoe serratum

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:59 am

Great! that one does look better.
glad I could help, even if it was only half way

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:12 pm

Hi Jennifer,

Tony, I think the name should be K. serrata. One of the previous names that it carried was Bryophyllum serratum. The bryophyllum genus was an attempt to separate all of those kalanchoes that have the plantlets on the leaves and the beautiful waxy bell shaped flowers. For now they are all still kalanchoes.

StereoQueen · Post by **StereoQueen** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:45 pm

Well thanks guys

Rosemarie · Post by **Rosemarie** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:40 pm

I believe your plant is Kalanchoe houghtonii, previously Bryophyllum 'Houghton's Hybrid'.

I grow mine hard (lots of sun, little water) so they are colored up & (most times) leaves are spaced closer together than yours (& a bit thicker). Here are a couple pix:

The lighter green one on the right in the 2nd pic was in some shade.