Kalanchoe thyrsiflora (also known as paddle plant, flapjacks, desert cabbage, white lady, geelplakkie, meelplakkie, or plakkie) is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family (Crassulaceae) and native to Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Eswatini. This plant is rare in cultivation, and those plants labelled as "Kalanchoe thyrsiflora" in horticulture are mostly another similar species, Kalanchoe luciae. It is one of the few succulents which flower and fruit once only (monocarpic). A peculiarity of the species is that the round leaves are held in a vertical posture.
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Is it poisonous?
Considered toxic. Public sources list it as such; we have not verified this individually. The note covers its whole genus. Bufadienolides; cardiotoxic to animals Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Kalanchoe luciae — considered toxic
- Kalanchoe synsepala — considered toxic
- Kalanchoe paniculata — considered toxic
- Echeveria gigantea
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Saxifragales
- Family
- Crassulaceae
- Genus
- Kalanchoe
- Species
- Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
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