Kalanchoe Longiflora

This Kalanchoe has leaves which can change from a deep green to crimson depending on its environment. Yellow flowers on tall spikes appear during late spring and summer months. Porous soil with ample airflow. Bright light to morning sun. Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch. Protect from frost. AS PER ICN LONGIFLORA Schlechter ex J.M.Wood, 1903 (engl./ fr.) Section Kalanchoe Distribution : SA (KwaZulu-Natal), on rocks. Description (by B. Descoings in IHSP, 2003) : Lax succulent perennials, entirely glabrous, to 40 cm tall. Stems robust, 4-angled, erect with decumbent branches. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, petiole 1 - 15 mm, clasping, lamina ovate-oblong, obovate to almost orbicular, grey-green with thick bloom or green with red-purple margins to completely red-violet, 4 - 8 x 3 - 8 cm, tip obtuse to rounded, base cuneate, margins entire in lower part, above crenate or with few rounded patelliform teeth. Inflorescences many-flowered corymbs, pedicels 1 - 2 cm. FIowers erect, calyx green tinged with red-violet, tube ± 1 mm, sepals narrowly triangular, acute, 2 - 3 mm, corolla green, yellowish-green, yellow to orange, tube elongate-ampullaceous to almost cylindrical-quadrangular, 11 - 17 mm, petals ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, 2 – 4.5 x 2 – 3 mm. This endemic species is related to K. sexangularis.

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  Full sun to partial shade

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  Very little water

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  Not Frost hardy

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  Light and free draining