Alligator Plant
Kalanchoe daigremontiana Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Crassulaceae
Also called Mother of Thousands, Devil's Backbone, Devil's backbone
Formerly Bryophyllum daigremontianum
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 大葉落地生根, 綴弁慶, 大叶落地生根
- Spanish
- Planta lagarto de Madagascar, Aranto, Curalotodo
- Italian
- Calancola del Madagascar
- French
- Kalanchoé de Daigremont
- Russian
- Каланхоэ Дегремона
- Japanese
- コダカラベンケイ, シコロベンケイ
- Chinese (China)
- 大叶落地生根
- Thai
- ว่านตีนจิ้งจก
- Portuguese
- Mãe-de-milhares-manchada, Mãe-de-milhares-rajada, Aranto-manchado
- Finnish
- pitsi-itulehti
- Turkish
- Timsah Kalanşo
- Slovak
- kalanchoa Daigremontova
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Kalanchoe daigremontiana (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.