Plant of the Day: Kalanchoe Tubiflora
This Kalanchoe Tubiflora is from one of the many easy to care succulents from my collection. It’s a type of kalanchoe that requires almost no care, except for some sun, water and soil.
My mom’s friend had given her the plant years ago. This is probably the 6th generation. Some say it’s used as medicinal tea for maintaining a healthy liver. I have not tried making any tea with it, but heard it’s very bitter.
Kalanchoe Tubiflora is also known as “Chandelier plant, Mother-of-Thousands Plant and Maternity Plant”. The names do suit it well as this plant can have many offsprings. They are the little plantlets growing off the leaves.
If the little plantlets fall off to the ground it will grow like mad. It’s a very invasive plant, so best to keep it as a container plant. It can grow almost 5 feet tall.
As for the name “chandelier plant”, it gets that name from it’s pretty pink bunches of bloom which hang like a chandelier. They seem to bloom a few times a year, usually in winter and spring. It’s probably the nicest thing about this very odd looking plant.
Check out the plantlets (babies)! Once they drop they will start growing as a new plant.
There happens to be many variety of this plant, many are listed in Plants of Hawaii.
