Mother of Thousands

mother of thousands

Mother of Thousands

I promised to show you pictures of my plants a few weeks ago.  I’ve taken pictures of a few of them, but not all.  The weather has been so strange here and is making picture taking difficult.

This plant is a Mother of Thousands, a kind of Kalanchoe. It forms little plantlets on its leaves – you can see a few in this picture – and then drops them.  It’s incredible the number of little clones this plant makes in just a few months.

I started this mother of thousands from a plantlet about a year and a half ago.

Comments

  1. Theo says:

    My former housemate has a plant like this… he “cloned” a new common name for it: his “little shop of horrors plant”, due to its tendency to drop baby plants into neighboring pots and out-compete the residents.

  2. Karina says:

    Oh! I totally have one of these! It came in a pot with a Christmas cactus from my grandma. The Christmas cactus doesn’t look so good but I”m not sure it’s Mother-of-Thousands’ fault.

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