Kalanchoe ID please

[Nick]

Can anyone identify this Kalanchoe for me please?
Thanks
Nick

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[Aloenut]

Nick,

It looks like one of the forms of Kalanchoe beharensis, a variable species from Madagascar.

Aloenut

[Colin Walker]

Hi Nick,

I think that's the Madagascan Kalanchoe beharensis, probably the cultivar 'Fang'.

[Bill]

Hi nick

I would have said tomentosa, surely beharensis is hairless and has a leaf a bit like a stretched maple leaf If Colin says beharensis as well you better ignore me:o

[Nick]

Thanks guys - Jaws it is then!
Nick

[Colin Walker]

Hi Nick,

Google images for Kalanchoe beharensis Fang and you'll get similar plants.

Try for instance:



I did this just now and was rather surprised at just how variable the plants were under this name. Cultivars are supposed to be fairly constant because they should be propagated from cuttings not seed, so technically they're all genetically uniform.

[Colin Walker]

Hi Bill,

Kalanchoe tomentosa is a much smaller, weaker growing plant, usually with very white or greyish-whitish hairs, but a darker edge to the leaf.

At maturity K. beharensis can have stems up to 10ft (3 m) tall, although I've never seen 'Fang' at this size.

[Bill]

Quite a difference when you see the two side by side.

[quote] Colin wrote:
CFultivars are su[pposed to be fairly constant because they should be propagated from cuttings not seed, so technically they're all genetically uniform.[/quote]

This something that has puzzled me as I have seen some well known growers offering pots of seedlings labelled with names like Aloe Lizard Lips, which I thought was a cultivar so wouldn't come true from seed????????? I grow a lot of Fuchsias cultivars and they are all grown from cutting,

[Colin Walker]

[size=medium]Hi Bill,

Plants such as Aloe 'Lizard Lips' should only be propagated as cuttings, otherwise what you get isn't this cultivar. So as you say, the situation here is the same as with named Fuchsias. [/size]