Velvet-leaf
Kalanchoe beharensis Drake
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Crassulaceae
Also called Felt Bush, Elephant's Ear Kalanchoe, Velvet Leaf Kalanchoe, Elephant's ear Kalanchoe
Formerly Kalanchoe vantieghemii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- Kalanchoe oreja de elefante de Madagascar, Orejas de elefante
- Afrikaans
- Donkie-oor
- Russian
- Каланхоэ бехарское
- Chinese (China)
- 仙女之舞
- Chinese
- 象耳(仙人扇), 仙女之舞, 仙女舞
- Finnish
- huopaitulehti
- Slovak
- kalanchoa beharská
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Kalanchoe beharensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.