Kalanchoe - Christmas Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe Blossfeildiana)
Kalanchoe Plant Care
The Christmas Kalanchoe is very popular. It can be induced to flower at any time during the year, though spring season is its natural flowering time. Hybrids produce lilac, orange, pink, red, white or yellow blooms. Plantlets grow from the center of the green scolloped leaves and so it is also called the Miracle Leaf Plant. You can also remove and grow these plantlets.
It used to be chiefly a winter-flowering plant. Therefore, the common name Christmas Kalanchoe. But now hybrids are made to flower all year round.
To force these Christmas plant to bloom lessen the amount of light it gets, so that it has long, dark nights. (You trick it into feeling that it's winter.) Christmas plants like Poinsettia and Kalanchoe, need the same treatment to make them bloom during Christmas, so check in Poinsettia website - "How To Make Your Poinsettia Bloom Next Christmas!"
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Another beautiful one is THE KALANCHOE TOMENTOSA (Panda Plant), a succulent with soft fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves which feel and look like white velvet.
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