Kalanchoe Species, Desert Cabbage, Ice Sculpture Kalanchoe, Flapjack Plant, Paddle Plant

One of my favorite Kalanchoe, compact, low growing and with nice blue colour.
Please, note that all photos except PalmBob's ones a...Read Morere wrong, as they show Kalanchoe luciae. The problem is that almost every book and nursery label K. luciae as K. thyrsiflora, so everybody believes K. thyrsiflora is the species which in reallity is K. luciae...
So read PalmBob's message if you have a doubt and use his photos, they are good and reliable.

Bought this in a 4" pot a year ago. Now fills out a 12' pot with 4 plants in there. About 18" tall & larger leaves measure 7" x 6". Ma...Read Morey interest y'all to know that when I was potting it up I broke a leaf off & just stuck it in a small pot & now have another plant the size I bought last year. No blooms yet but love the architecture of the plant itself.
When I put mine in full summer sun the leaves took on a wilted look so I put it back under a shade tree so it gets full morning sun & seems real happy. Have also heard this called 'red lips' as the edges take on a red color. Mine do not do that. Think next year I will start it off in full sun & see if it will acclimate to my hot summer sun little by little. Love this plant & want to keep it happy.

Great looking plant that can take down to about 30F before melting. Slow growing in even large pots,but it gets there in time to a good s...Read Moreize with blushing red edged leaves. Two problems i have had-it's a snail and slug magnet and also hard to keep passerby's from picking it to death...

I saw this plant growing in a nursery in Carpinteria, California. We bought a small one and have it planted on a landscaped 'island'. W...Read Moree had a very hard freeze last winter and the plant disappeared -- but, it has come back now and hopefully will live to grow and one day bloom (if it doesn't freeze again so hard!!!) We love the architectural shape it displays and the coloring is charismatic.

Not sure how I feel about this plant anymore since I am not sure what this plant is. Turns out what I thought was this for so many years...Read More was Kalanchoe luciae. Kalanchoe thyrsiflora seems to be a much rarer plant with paler, smaller leaves that rarely color up... still has paddle shaped leaves, but not the humongous ones in most of the photos. Still, SO many nurseries misidentify this plant that it seems almost OK to continue to also do the same... but I will try not to. If your plant flowers and has yellow, fragrant flowers, then it probably IS thyrsiflora... however if it has whitish flowers that don't smell like much, then it is indeed luciae. Also, if your plant is large, with many great reds and other colors aside from just white and turquoise it is very unlikely it is this plant. Kalanchoe luciae is a MUCH more common and robust plant and sold everywhere. I have frankly never seen this plant for sale, though I would not be surprised if the Huntington sold it now and then, as they have a pretty nice supply of it.

Now there is tricolor plant in cultivation that also unfortunately is often identified as this plant (it is not). Given the name 'Fantastic', it is quite colorful and a great collector's item... but it is, too, Kalanchoe luciae.

This was the first plant I ever picked out for purchase... recently... so, it is a very special friend... now stands guarding one side of...Read More the entrance to my house... have managed to propogate two offsets from the main trunk and they're coming along just fine...

I bought it in Houston and brought it down here and since that time I have seen it here in Dallas. Mine is doing fine the leaves are tur...Read Morening a pale pinkish red since I have it full sun with some shade.
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Bushy, white-frosted, perennial succulent. Densely covered with oval to inversely lance-shaped, red-margined, pale green leaves, 4-6" lon...Read Moreg, with blunt rounded tips and leaf pairs united at the bases. In spring, bears panicles of erect to spreading tubular to urn-shaped flowers, fragrant yellow flowers.

Origin South Africa. Increase by offsets.