Hi,
Someone gave these 2 plants to my wife, last year. After flowering this type of plant usually gets thrown away, but I had the intention to take some cuttings, but it never happend and they have just sat on the kitchen window sill.
But here they are in Winter and full of blooms, well the Orange one is.
I know it's a Kalanchoe, but do we know it's origin?? or speices or is it a hybrid? Cultivar.... The Orange one has plain undersides to the leaves, the Yellow one's are mottled.
any ideas??
Mel.
Kalanchoe??
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Re: Kalanchoe??
It's flaming katy (and several other common names). It is usually attributed to K. blossfeldiana, but does that mean no hybridisation in cultivation?????
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Re: Kalanchoe??
Hi Davy,
Yes I had heard it called Flaming Katy before. I should have mentioned it!!
Mel.
Yes I had heard it called Flaming Katy before. I should have mentioned it!!
Mel.
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Re: Kalanchoe??
Gordon Rowley did an excellent article for CactusWorld that went into the breeding of this plant.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42795129
Free registration is necessary for JSTOR to read the article. Well worth it as you can read 100 articles per month. Or progress through the same issue and the counter does not notice.
In 2008, there were 65 million plants produced commercially annually just by the Netherlands. They are so easy from cuttings there must be many more than that out there. Rowley references "Shaw 2008", which can be found here:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pd ... anchoe.pdf
You can also read an article by the nurseryman after whom it is named (Robert Blossfeld) about the plant from the December 1934 issue of The Cactus Journal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42784438
The original description of the species (in German) can also be read online:
https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/1 ... ark&n=0&q=
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42795129
Free registration is necessary for JSTOR to read the article. Well worth it as you can read 100 articles per month. Or progress through the same issue and the counter does not notice.
In 2008, there were 65 million plants produced commercially annually just by the Netherlands. They are so easy from cuttings there must be many more than that out there. Rowley references "Shaw 2008", which can be found here:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pd ... anchoe.pdf
You can also read an article by the nurseryman after whom it is named (Robert Blossfeld) about the plant from the December 1934 issue of The Cactus Journal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42784438
The original description of the species (in German) can also be read online:
https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/1 ... ark&n=0&q=
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