Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kalanchoe_daigremontiana
Mother of Thousands
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
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About Mother of Thousands
An erect to leaning succulent subshrub, usually unbranched, with opposite thick triangular-to-lanceolate leaves blotched purple beneath. Notched leaf edges produce many small rooted plantlets that detach. Hanging bell flowers have green-to-purplish calyces and pink-to-lavender tubular corollas. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Kalanchoe daigremontiana
- Common names
- mother of thousands · mother of millions · devil's backbone
- Other names
- Kalanchoe daigremontiana · mother of thousands · mother of millions · devil's backbone
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Do not substitute the narrower boat-shaped leaves of Kalanchoe × houghtonii or nearly cylindrical leaves of K. delagoensis. A plain green form with purple-blotched undersides is represented.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; succulent subshrub or shrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An erect to leaning succulent subshrub, usually unbranched, with opposite thick triangular-to-lanceolate leaves blotched purple beneath. Notched leaf edges produce many small rooted plantlets that detach. Hanging bell flowers have green-to-purplish calyces and pink-to-lavender tubular corollas. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.