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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Crassulaceae (ベンケイソウ科) > Kalanchoe daigremontiana
Kalanchoe Adans. (リュウキュウベンケイ)Kodakarabenkei (コダカラベンケイ, 子宝弁慶), mother of thousands, alligator plant or Mexican hat plantLifeform: succulent, evergreen, perennial forb Distribution: southwestern Madagascar (IUCN Red List: endangered) Habitat: rocky and dry places in the native regions |
Propagation: vegetatively from plantlets developing the leaf margins Poison: daigremontianin, one of the steroids Use: ornamental (a few cultivars) Synonyms: Bryophyllum daigremontianum (Raym.-Hamet et H.Perrier) A. Berger, formerly used |
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[1-3] in the glasshouse of Kyoto Botanical Gardens, western Japan, on September 17 2022.