#kalanchoe
Spent the morning splitting all these guys up and giving them their own homes
I’ll be honest and I can only positively ID the bear paw kalanchoe (small fuzzy guys with little brown spots). I’m psure, though, that the spiky one with reddish edges is a crassula of some kind, and the rounder one is sedum. I think they all started as fallen leaves taken from garden store displays, so I dont know that I ever actually had the right info on them, if I ever did.
(Pro tip: if you’re broke/cheap, but live near the big guys like a Lowe’s, Home Depot, or anything like that, you can often find fallen leaves all over the place. The leaves are great for starting a plant from propagation. If you’re feeling less risky, I’ve heard from a lot of people that you can haggle over the price of a dying plant, if you’re interested in a challenge. Dying plants may sometimes be too far gone, but you can usually pull off a healthy amount of leaves to start from, and it usually still works out to being cheaper than buying the little 1" starter/filler babies)
Many porch babes. Including a few I just up-potted or moved outside, like the variegated tradescantia/purple heart and that big mother of thousands in the middle shelf.
The big pencil cactus seems to be happy. At some point I need to do a comparison pic of when I first got it versus now.
Striking
Before the day (night) is over, just wanna jump onto the bandwagon of wishing everyone a Happy Halloween! Hope all of you enjoyed the day in some way!
And I’m posting my white-white Kalanchoes because “ghosts” right?
My lavender scallops has started to pup. It was very surprising to see, as I’d always thought that this species don’t pup. But yay! Upcoming babies and “new” addition to my mother of thousands collection
FYI I’d killed several of these before this one and it’s still a mystery for me how is this one surviving while the others didn’t, and I don’t think it’s the Sun as the Sun didn’t come around yet when I first had this.
Bloom season
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (Flaming Katy)
she’s finally flowering
4/11/21
The Wonderful World of Plantlets, Bulbils, Cormlets, Tubercles, and Gemmae
The Wonderful World of Plantlets, Bulbils, Cormlets, Tubercles, and Gemmae
Probably the most well known strategy that plants have for dispersal is by way of seeds. Seeds are plants in embryo, and new generations of plants are born when seeds, released from their parent plants, find suitable locations to germinate. But one of the most amazing things about plants in general is that they have the ability to reproduce in a variety of different ways, and many plant species…
Kalanchoe, Macro Photography
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