Beauverd's widow's-thrill (Kalanchoe beauverdii)
Description
Kalanchoe beauverdii is a completely bald climber . Their slender, woody, weak, drooping shoots are several meters long. They are richly branched and climb with support. The very thick, succulent leaves are sitting to half-sitting or short-stalked, green, somewhat purple-streaked and usually covered with a waxy hoarfrost. They are very variable in shape and size. The linear, narrow-spatula, spear-shaped, egg-shaped to oblong, sometimes triple-lobed leaf blade is 1.5 to 11 centimeters long and 0.3 to 4 centimeters wide and pointed at the tip. The base is slightly stalk-enclosing.The inflorescence is a loose, wenigbl-tige Zyme . The hanging flowers sit on 0.6 to 4 centimeters long petal stems . The green-yellow, slightly purpentine tulip is 1 to 10 millimeters long, has a diameter of up to 12 millimeters, and ends in triangular pointed tips, 7 to 13 millimeters long and 6.9 to 8.2 millimeters wide. The petal crown is bell-like, pale green to gray-green with red-purple streaks. The 11 to 33 millimeter long crown has ovoid to circular, pointed pointed lobes of 12 to 17 millimeters in length and 8 to 19 millimeters in width. The stamens are attached near the base of the corolla, and all protrude from the corolla. The dust bags are egg-shaped and between 2 and 2.4 millimeters long. The egg-shaped triangular nectar scales are 0.8 to 2 millimeters long and about 2.5 millimeters wide. The narrowly ovate carpel is between 5 and 8 millimeters, of the stylus from 15 to 17 millimeters long.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Saxifragales
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Family: Crassulaceae
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Genus: Kalanchoe
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