Kalanchoe thyrsiflora

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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
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Family: Crassulaceae
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Genus: Kalanchoe
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Species: K. thyrsiflora Harvey
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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora Harv., is a species of Kalanchoe, native to South Africa. A succulent plant producing a stalk about 1m tall, dying back after flowering. It forms a basal rosette of large, rounded, fleshy stalkless leaves, which are grayish-green with red margins, covered with a white powdery bloom. The inflorescence is terminal and erect with densely clustered thyrse-like panicles of greenish waxy flowers with yellow recurved lobes, narrowly urn-shaped. Flowering from autumn to spring. Common in grassveld amongst rocks.

K. thyrsiflora flowers
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Widespread over Asia and Africa, the genus is distinguished by its flowers, which have their parts in fours, the stamens being in 2 whorls of 4. The botanist Adanson first described the genus Kalanchoe in 1763. Other genera in the family are Adromischus, Bryophyllum, Cotyledon, Crassula, Dinacria, Grammanthes, Pagella, Rhopalota, Rochea and Tylecodon.

A common name for this species is Flapjacks.

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