Kalanchoe Tomentosa 'Chocolate Soldier'
Panda Plant 'Chocolate Soldier'
Tomentosa is a popular houseplant with dark-red rimmed, velvety foliage. The kalanchoe tomentosa grows up to approximately 45cm with a thick stem that produces branches and many groups of leaves, once it matures. It is easy to care for. 'Chocolate Soldier' is an attractive small, slow growing succulent that can reach 60cm tall, with narrow pale brown-green leaves that are covered in tiny hairs. In summer it produces yellow-green flowers with dark brown petal tips, but flowering is not that common.
Contributed by @Staci
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Full sun
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Light and free draining
Common name
Panda Plant 'Chocolate Soldier'
Latin name
Kalanchoe Tomentosa 'Chocolate Soldier'
type
Succulent
family
Crassulaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.25 M
0.60 M
Kalanchoe Tomentosa 'Chocolate Soldier'
Tomentosa is a popular houseplant with dark-red rimmed, velvety foliage. The kalanchoe tomentosa grows up to approximately 45cm with a thick stem that produces branches and many groups of leaves, once it matures. It is easy to care for. 'Chocolate Soldier' is an attractive small, slow growing succulent that can reach 60cm tall, with narrow pale brown-green leaves that are covered in tiny hairs. In summer it produces yellow-green flowers with dark brown petal tips, but flowering is not that common.
Flowering
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Although this plant can flower within it's natural habitat - it's rare to see flowers bloom indoors, so it's grown for primarily it's foliage within homes. If your lucky enough to get it to flower, then you will see lovely small tubular shaped flowers bloom at the tips of the branches.
Planting young plants
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Use a cacti and succulent potting mix, or your own mix which drains easily (part sand). The panda plant is a slow grower which will only need re-potting once every 2 years and then less once it matures.
Propogation by cuttings
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Leaf cuttings can be taken and planted in new soil during spring. Give the leaf cutting a week of drying out before re-potting, then you can expect them to begin rooting within 4 weeks.
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