Kalanchoe pinnata

Plant Characteristics

Habit		cacti-succulent
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Poisonous:	☠	can be toxic

Cultivation

Features:	✓	flowers, foliage
Flower features:	❀	red, green

Scientific Names

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Kalanchoe pinnata (syn. Bryophyllum calycinum, Bryophyllum pinnatum, also known as the Air Plant, Life Plant, Miracle Leaf and Goethe Plant is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. It is distinctive for the profusion of miniature plantlets that form on the margins of its leaves, a trait it has in common with the other members of the Bryophyllum section of the Kalanchoe genus.

It is a popular houseplant and has become naturalized in temperate regions of Asia, the Pacific and Caribbean.

Read about Kalanchoe pinnata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Bryophyllum pinnatum, Kurz (B. calycinum, Salisb.). Figs. 673-4. Height 2-4 ft. : Lvs. opposite, fleshy, becoming leathery with age, earlier ones simple, ovate, with cordate or rounded base, later ones pinnate and then of 3-5 short- stalked lfts., the rachis and petiole with a narrow groove on the upper side, margin crenately doubly-serrate, light green becoming purplish along the veins toward maturity, margin purple as are also the petioles and young st.-growths: fls. pendulous, in terminal panicles; calyx much inflated, purplish green with lighter dots, 1½ in. long; corolla greenish white with purple-tinted, spreading acute tips. Tropics of both hemispheres. B.M. 1409. L.B.C. 9:877. G.C. 111.41:422. J.H.I1I.46:205. R.B. 24:125. R.H. 1900, p. 362. V. 3:117; 4:113; 7:340.—Said to be used in India as a diuretic. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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