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KALANCHOE DAIGREMONTIANA Hamet & H.Perrier, 1914
Synonym : Bryophyllum daigremontianum (Hamet & H.Perrier) A.Berger (1930)
Section Bryophyllum
Distribution : SW Madagascar; open woods, on sandstone or limestone; naturalized in some tropical countries (e. g. India).
Description (according to IHSP, 2003) :
Biennials, entirely glabrous, 40 – 80 cm tall; stems simple, erect or decumbent, brownish.
Leaves dark green, pink-green to purplish-green with brown-red spots, petiolate, sometimes peltate, petiole amplexicaul, 1 – 5 cm, lamina ovate, oblong-ovate to long-triangular, often ± folded, 2 – 20 x 1 – 3.5 cm, tip acute, base ± rounded, margins regularly dentate, with numerous bulbils on the teeth.
Inflorescences lax manyflowered paniculate cymes, pedicels 5 – 11 mm.
Flowers pendent or spreading, calyx tube 3 – 4 mm, sepals deltoid, acute, 3 – 5 x 2.2 – 3.6 mm, corolla campanulate, reddish to purple, tube 16 – 19 mm, petals obovate, acute, 7 – 8 x 3.5 – 4.5 mm.
The leaves are very variable in size and colour as well as in shape (from linear to broadly deltoid, sometimes ± trilobite). This species hybridizes easily with several others (K. rosei, K. delagoensis). It is frequently cultivated in tropical gardens.
K. daigremontiana in New Caledonia :
Link to K. daigremontiana photos by Sven Bernhard