Kalanchoe bryophyllum

I couldn't get these IDd the other week, so I went back to the location today to get better shots. They are very strange actually ...

The grey spikey bottlebrush things are the "leaves" ...



The flowerheads are perhaps a meter or so tall and look like umbrellas ...



And this is what they are growing out of ... rock ...

 

http://www.kambroo.com/succulent_plant_nursery/cotyledon-orbiculata-quicksilver.html

Just a guess, the leaves may not be quite right but I know the flowers are very similar in cotyledon sp.
I'm looking at the dactylopsis or "quicksilver" types.

 

The flower is not unlike the chilean glory vine that I have in my garden

 

Thank you, pete. I have looked up that link and others. Although the flowers are similar, they do not seem as "clustered" as these and somehow the leaves are not right on any of them, although I am sure you are right with Cotyledon.

I'm not sure where my head was at the time, but somehow a piece of it did not stick to my hand like the Pink Snowball tree did a few meters away ... :confused:

N'er mind, I go there once or twice a month and all these beauties grow in the sand at the beach edge ... completely neglected, which I find amazing.

 

Agaveman, you are our newest "specialist" ... can you ID please?

 

Hello Marley.

No, I don't think it's an Echeveria and certainly not the two mentioned.

I also don't think it's a Kalanchoe.

All these things have fleshy leaves ... here is a cropped close-up of the leaves, they are the greyish bottlebrush looking things ...

 

It looks to me like the stems grow upward in their first year with leaves, presumably the leaves drop off in the summer drought leaving the stem which flowers in the following winter.

A good "sharp" closeup of the leaves and flowers might help, but its one of those plants, that unless you've come across it before, its difficult.

I think the flowers are totally wrong for a euphorbia Marley but byrophyllum sounds a possible

 

Sorry guys. I've looked at Euphorbias (and we have a lot of them here) and the Byrophyllums again and I can't see any similarities.

That's an interesting concept, pete. Besides these on the beach, I've seen one clump since in someone's garden further out in the country from us.

I shall just have to go back again and hopefully some will stick to my hand this time as I quite fancy it now! :rolleyes:

 

What about bryophyllum serratifolia, I used to have plants of B. Diagremontianum which used to flower in the winter, similar flower but a duller red.

http://www.bryophyllum.com/b/articles/id/

thats showing a bright green leaf, but the colouring could vary depending on how much light the plant is getting.

 

God ... I must be blind as a bat as I cannot see any resemblance whatsoever ... these are little tubular spikes not flat with Mexican hat thingies on the sides ... sorry, very technical that. Definitely a return visit.

 

You've seen it, we havn't.
So I'll take that as a NO shall I? :D

 

Don't the leaves look something like an Aloe?

 

Yes, pete. :D

What leaves are you looking at Sis?

Think I'll leave now and go research some more Crassula ... I will report back later.