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Kalanchoe manginii

Species of succulent

Summary

Species of succulent

  • Bryophyllum manginii (R.-Hamet & H. Perrier) Nothdurft
  • Kalanchoe manginii var. triploidea Mannoni & Boiteau

Kalanchoe manginii, beach bells, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to Madagascar.

Description

It is an evergreen succulent perennial growing to 30 cm tall and wide, with arching branches of rounded, glossy leaves, and urn-shaped salmon-red flowers in spring. The numerous, slender, woody, prostrate shoots are clustered. The end of the shoots is upright. The non-flowering shoots are covered in downy hairs and have glands, whereas flowering shoots are bare.

The sessile, very succulent leaves are up to 8 millimeters thick, bare to tiny, downy hairs, green, obovate to oblong circular and 1 to 3 centimeters long and 0.6 to 1.5 centimeters wide. The leaf tip is very blunt, narrowed at the base and does not enclose the stem. The leaf edge is entire or slightly notched in the upper part.

Inflorescence

The inflorescence is a loose, few-flowered panicle with brood buds, which appear from late winter to early spring. The hanging flowers sit on 0.7 to 1 centimeter long flower stalks. The green to greenish-red calyx tube is 0.4 to 0.8 millimeters long and ends in egg-shaped, pointed tips that are 6.5 to 9 millimeters long and 2.4 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is urn-shaped, red-orange to bright red.

The 20 to 25 millimeter long corolla tube has egg-shaped tips with attached tips that are 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters long and 4.5 to 5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube and all protrude from the corolla tube. The anthers are kidney-shaped and about 1.6 millimeters long. The linear nectar scales are 1.8 millimeters long and wide. The style is between 14 and 17 millimeters long.

Cultivation

As the minimum temperature for growth is 10 C, in temperate regions this plant must be grown under glass as a houseplant. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

References

References

  1. "''Kalanchoe manginii'' Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier". Kew Science.
  2. Hassler, M.. "Catalogue of Life: Kalanchoe manginii R.-Hamet & Perrier". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life.
  3. (2008). "RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants". Dorling Kindersley.
  4. "RHS Plant Selector - ''Kalanchoe manginii''".
  5. (July 2017). "AGM Plants - Ornamental". Royal Horticultural Society.
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