That one looks like Kalanchoe daigremontiana aka Mother of Thousands, a pretty apt description, no?

Here is the second one. This on is more spiral as you can see. Not quite so organized.

Yes and here is the one they call the "Mother of Millions". Unbelievable huh?

Every leaf has TONS of baby plantlets just waiting to jump off and root themselves! Beautiful though, aren't they?

But I believe this one is the Kalanchoe Daigremontiana, isn't it? Are there any Kalanchoe experts out there?

Here is a link that might be useful: Kalanchoe Daigremontiana

This post was edited by Nyphrodel on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 17:14

It's such a neat plant; my parents had one in their house when I was growing up. I haven't seen them for sale around here; the regular kalanchoe with the colourful flowers seem to be more in vogue.

When I Google the term 'Mother of Millions' or ' Mother of Thousands', I get images of all three of my Kalanchoe and another one that I have as well. How do I know which is and which isn't the daigremontiana?

Yes Donna.in.ask, they are so cool, the other Kalanchoe that I have is one of the pretty flowering ones. But, my big monster actually flowered this past year and it had a TON of pretty showy flowers that hung down so beautifully, I couldn't believe how prolific this thing is! Oh yeah, I have this one too:

Thinking #2 is 'tubiflora'?

also think #1 - daigremontiana
#2 - tublifora

recently acquired cuttings of both plants, structure looks identical to your pics, but the colors are like variegated with light and chocolate browns. very interesting looking leaves.

1st plant is Kalanchoe x houghtonii
2nd is Kalanchoe delagonensis (prev tubiflora)
3rd plant Kalanchoe crenato-daigremontiana (2 pix)
Last plant shown Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri

Rosemariero, YOU ARE AWESOME!!! It has been driving me mad trying to find the names of these species. All too often, when I GOOGLE an image of a species, there will be an assortment of plants all claiming to be the same thing. Almost all Kalanchoe are referred to as "Mother of Millions" or "Mother of Thousands", and as a result, people get careless. The Wikipedia has a list of kalanchoe species, but not all of them have photos, so they are tough to identify individually. I was pretty confident in my choice for the Daigremontiana but I was totally lost on the others. As you can see by the other posts, I'm not the only one. Nobody was quite sure. Looks like we're all in the same boat. Hey, guys, we have our Kalanchoe expert!

I can't thank you enough Rosemariero, Crassulaceae is my favorite Family and Kalanchoe is most definitely my favorite genus. I want to learn more about the individual species and now, thanks to you, I can. =)

Nyphrodel

Thank you, Nyphrodel & you're welcome! I am by no means an expert at Kalanchoe. I have had a lot of years researching & identifying these plants. I get confused sometimes, as well! Hee hee!

It is a frustrating thing to have so many plant misidentified online. Technology is a wonderful thing...but sometimes too wonderful?!? It doesn't take much for 1 photo being mis-ID'd, turning into thousands! So, plants have to be compared & confirmed, etc. There are no Internet Plant Police! LOL

It does not help that folks use common names of plants, rather than their Latin names, and then, compounding confusion by calling many different plants by the same common names. Mother of Thousands is one such name.

Most photos online don't allow you to see the plants clearly, which makes it even more difficult to ID.

Below are a few links of of photos of what Kalanchoe daigremontiana (previously classified as Bryophyllum daigremontianum) looks like:

To show you something to look for to determine it is this plant, look closely at the plants in these pix. At the end of the leaf that is attached to the petiole (which attaches to the stem), you can see the leaf is upturned. If you look at K. x houghtonii, you see that is missing. I see more Kal. x houghtonii misidentified as k. daigremontiana, than any of the others. Calling them all Mother of Thousands doesn't help. :(

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Zyworodka_-_Kalanchoe_daigremontiana.JPG

http://curator.phytoimages.siu.edu/users/paraman1/7_13_09_1/Upload13July09B/KalanchoeDaigremontiana108.jpg

Enjoy your plants!
~Rosemarie

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