Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
Chandelier Plant, Chandelier plant (U.S.), Chandelier plant, Mother of millions, Mother of Thousands, Gusanillo (Dominican Republic)
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Summary
Kalanchoe delagoensis, formerly known as Bryophyllum delagoense and commonly called mother of millions or chandelier plant, is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. Like other members of Bryophyllum, it is able to propagate vegetatively from plantlets that develop on its leaf margins.
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About the genus · Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe, , is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 6 space station in 1979.
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At a glance
Also known as Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Druce; Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Schinz; Bryophyllum tubiflorum Harv.; Bryophyllum verticillatum (Scott Elliot) A.Berger; Geaya purpurea Costantin & Poiss. and 3 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Kalanchoe, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (November to March at the habitat, southern).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (906 mm of 1276 mm) falls in November to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.7 °C against a yearly mean of 22.2 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: May to September.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1276 mm a year, wettest January at 233 mm, driest June at 34 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1276 mm a year at the habitat, 906 mm of it November to March. Wettest month January at 233 mm, driest June at 34 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 633 mm to 2292 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 44 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 44 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 14.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 14.1 °C, the absolute minimum 11.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 13.5 °C in July (across the envelope cells 10.5 °C to 17.5 °C), warmest day 28.4 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 14.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 26–31 | 28 / 26–31 | 28 / 25–31 | 26 / 24–30 | 25 / 22–28 | 23 / 19–26 | 22 / 19–25 | 24 / 21–27 | 26 / 23–30 | 27 / 25–31 | 28 / 26–32 | 28 / 26–32 |
| Night °C | 21 / 18–24 | 21 / 18–24 | 20 / 17–23 | 19 / 16–22 | 16 / 13–20 | 14 / 11–18 | 14 / 11–18 | 14 / 11–18 | 15 / 12–19 | 17 / 14–20 | 19 / 15–21 | 20 / 17–23 |
| Rain mm | 233 / 157–334 | 204 / 126–303 | 158 / 75–287 | 102 / 35–185 | 60 / 18–158 | 34 / 6–106 | 39 / 10–153 | 36 / 6–88 | 38 / 14–94 | 61 / 31–115 | 119 / 49–187 | 192 / 122–306 |
| DLI | 42 / 38–44 | 39 / 37–41 | 36 / 34–39 | 31 / 29–34 | 26 / 24–29 | 23 / 21–26 | 24 / 22–27 | 30 / 28–33 | 37 / 35–40 | 42 / 41–45 | 44 / 43–47 | 44 / 41–46 |
| RH % | 64 / 60–68 | 65 / 60–68 | 64 / 60–67 | 63 / 58–67 | 62 / 57–65 | 61 / 56–64 | 61 / 56–64 | 60 / 54–63 | 58 / 53–63 | 59 / 55–64 | 60 / 57–65 | 63 / 59–66 |
Each figure is the median across the 22 grid cells holding the 22 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2296:4538 (-24.825, 46.925). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 11.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 14.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 22 distinct grid cells holding the 22 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2296:4538 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -25.00_46.875, lapse-corrected +128 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 346 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Daniel Macías Gómez, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Robert Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Kalanchoe delagoensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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Bougainvillea glabra BougainvilleaOther Kalanchoe 13 in the reference
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Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Christmas kalanchoe
Kalanchoe daigremontiana Alligator Plant
Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi Lavender Scallops
Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri Donkey Ears
Kalanchoe laetivirens Crenatodaigremontiana
Kalanchoe laxiflora Milky Widow's Thrill
Kalanchoe luciae Crassulaceae
Kalanchoe marmorata Penwiper
Kalanchoe pinnata Air plant Kalanchoe pumila Flour-dust plant
Kalanchoe sexangularis Bushveld Kalanchoe all 14 ›History & registers
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