Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

January 11, 2010

Kalanchoe-blossfeldiana-05 This kind of came up in a culture in 1930 and has been described for another 4 years later. Yet it is currently offered by most species of the genus Kalanchoe, in our country under the Czech, little used kolopejka name. For its rich and distinctive flowering sensitive response to treatment with light K. blossfeldiana became the subject of intense hybridization and propagation. The stores offered are indoor plants plants with larger leaves, with variegátním hues, with an extensive range of flower color (except blue) and plnokvětými hybrids. Species can be after all the different hybrids and cultivars. His homeland is northern Madagascar.

In nature, creates a kind of perennial herbs, forming dense clumps. Plants are completely bald and smooth. Nature is up to 40 cm in height. The stem is erect, slightly branching. The leaves have stems that have a groove on the upper side and from 0.5 to 2.5 cm long. The leaves are fleshy and their color is dark green, shiny and often edged in red on the edges. Leaf blade ovate to elongated shape, its top is blunt and sharp, its base is wedge-shaped to almost round. At the bottom edge of the leaf blade is solid, the amount of ripple irregularly crenate. Length of leaf blade is 3-7 cm and the width of 2-4 cm. The inflorescence is a top or side, and its shape is multiflorum panicle-shaped head. The stem is up to 15 cm high. Stopečka flower is 3-4 mm long, single flower is upright. The cup is green, the tube is only 1 mm long. Cusps are elongated triangular shape, sharp and 3-5 mm long. The crown is cylindrical, scarlet color. The corolla tube is 7-9 mm long, the tails are obovate oblong shape, the ends are blunt and pointed. Their length is 4-6 mm width and 2 - 2.5 mm. Sticks are set up towards the top of the pipe crown and none of them does not protrude. Anthers have a roundish shape and size to about 0.4 mm. Nektaria are cylindrical in shape, with scalloped surface and a length of 2 - 2.5 mm and a width of 0.3 to 0.5 mm. Karpel have a length of 4.5 - 5 mm. The pistil is up to 1.5 mm long.

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana falls within the wide range of form in which division we now dare. Just mention a few names - K. crenata and K. crundallii, K. densiflora, K. latisepala and so on. All of them are similar to the shape of leaves and stems of the building. Differences can be found in flower structure. Hybrids and cultivars include the whole issue owned plants obscure. No one knows the parents, or the number of crossings, which preceded our plant.

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana growing in nature in the shadow of forests at altitudes of 1 600 - 2 400 m Kalanchoe hybrids in particular are home to sea level, at altitudes from 200 m to 20 m below sea level, in the Dutch or Belgian greenhouses. Growing is easy. In the shade plant leaves remain large, glossy, dark green. Growth is lush. If you use fertilizer for houseplants rich and long flowering. I have one plnokvětou, yellow flowering hybrid blossfeldiánu that really blossomed a full 12 months in one piece. Then one year the plant had a rest and begin to bloom again. I submitted two specimens of different crops. The one plant I was extremely beautiful bonsai, I was the second fountain drobnolistých branches. For both plants the leaves are at their edges colored in red.

The wintering plants do not have to worry about. When we want to make plants grow and bloom, we are on the edge of the sill, to the light. We give them room temperature, watering, but fertilization. Fertilization is appropriate only in the warmer periods of the year, maybe by Easter. A flower and bloom. Whatever hybrids, the beauty of flowers make up for it.

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana von Poellnitz, Rep. Spec nov. Regni Veg. 35: 159-160, (1934)

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