Mother of thousands?

A beautiful but incredibly invasive plant from Madagascar, officially called a Noxious Weed in Australia, illegal to possess. It is indeed the Mother of Thousands (millions is more like it), formerly classified as a Kalanchoe, it is now Bryophyllum daigremontianum. Flowers are spectacular!

Brad

It is Kalanchoe x houghtonii, relative to the one named by Brad. They have switched back again to Kalanchoe from Bryophyllum. Hope it sticks now. :P Those are plantlets, not flowers, as mentioned in that photo.

gorgeous!!! but I can see it becoming an invasive weed ... Australia is really coming down hard on this plant though I can see why...also I think it's poisonous to livestock and kangaroos etc... so there would be no controlling it. If I find this in a nursery up here in Canada though i'm going to get it ... there's no way it would be invasive here ..unless it was in parts of British Columbia. :)

westerly

not invasive outdoors since most of Canada doesn't have enough 'warmth' (not sure about BC) during the winter...but could be invasive in your pots. Been there-done that...it is nice plant and if you can easily pull up unwanted from wherever they pop up, get it. If you are like me and have hard time to dispose of anything living, maybe you should re-consider...:)

Rina

:) ack!!! lol Rina you're so right but they're soooo cute ... :) ... ps: warmest parts of BC are about a zone 8 or 9 ..but true ... I wouldn't bet on them surviving in the wild at all ...except maybe 1 in a million lol.... considering too that it's too wet for them ...but still it would be an interesting experiment if I lived there. :)

I thought that you live in BC...if you like the plant - get it. One of the benefits of having a "vigorous multiplier" (just made that up) is that you'll always have plants to give as gifts :)