The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Kalanchoe laetivirens
Also called Mother Of Thousands
Crenatodaigremontiana (Kalanchoe laetivirens) is a succulent Kalanchoe from Madagascar, grown for its fleshy green leaves that produce plantlets along the margins. It is best kept like other Kalanchoes: bright light, sharp drainage and watering only when the soil is dry.
Kalanchoe laetivirens is a species of Kalanchoe (section Bryophyllum). It was thought to be a hybrid between K. daigremontiana and K. laxiflora (syn. Bryophyllum crenatum), and therefore a group of invalid names for such a hybrid, including Kalanchoe crenodaigremontiana, Kalanchoe crenato-daigremontiana, Bryophyllum crenodaigremontianum and Bryophyllum crenato-daigremontianum, are just synonyms of K. laetivirens. However, their true hybrid is distinct from this species.
It is often misidentified as one of its putative parents, K. daigremontiana, which has bands or spots on the back of leaves, while the leaves of K. laetivirens are completely green, as indicated by its epithet laetivirens which means "lushly green".
Kalanchoe adelae · Kalanchoe arborescens · Beauverd's widow's-thrill · Elephant's ear Kalanchoe · Kalanchoe bentii · Madagascar widow's-thrill · Kalanchoe bouvetii · Silver Spoons · Neverdie · Kalanchoe ceratophylla · Neverdie · Kalanchoe crundallii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kalanchoe laetivirens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
