The succulent plant with the longest flowering period, blooming three seasons a year, beautiful and easy to care for, well worth growing in a pot

Introduction

Green plants in pots are essential decorations for home life; they beautify the room and also delight the mind and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 965" introduces you to a succulent plant very much worth having.

Today's star

In most people's impression, succulent plants are basically grown for their foliage, rarely bloom, and many varieties quickly wither away after flowering. The flower in the picture above, if you don't look at the leaves and only look at the bloom, can you guess what flower this is? This flower is called "Brocade" (Jinduan), a succulent plant of the genus Kalanchoe in the Crassulaceae family, and a new variety of Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (florist's kalanchoe).

Brocade

Brocade has a very deep flower center, leaning purple or pink, and shows different flower colors depending on the light; the petal edges carry a pink frill, as if with a halo of their own, one flower in two colors. When they bloom in clusters it is very spectacular, like a "peacock spreading its tail," which is why it is also named "Peacock" (that is what domestic flower enthusiasts generally call it). Its ornamental value is very high, and it can even rival the famous Paris series.

Peacock spreading its tail

Brocade is one of the succulent plants with the longest flowering period; throughout the year, apart from a brief rest in summer, it blooms the rest of the time, and when it does, multiple flower stalks shoot out at once, with a great many buds. A single stalk can open dozens of flowers at the same time, and hundreds of small flowers blooming together is very spectacular and beautiful, very striking to the eye. That is why it is pursued by so many flower enthusiasts and praised as one of the varieties most worth getting.

Old stock small bonsai

Brocade is one of the fastest-growing Kalanchoe blossfeldiana varieties; starting from a small seedling, it takes only two years to grow into an old stock with woody branches, and made into a small bonsai it looks even better. Daily care is also very easy; it has strong adaptability, likes scattered light, is drought-tolerant, and only needs watering once every ten days to half a month. It can be propagated by leaf cuttings or stem cuttings, with a very high survival rate, and even beginners can grow it.

Worth getting

Brocade also has another very notable advantage - it is very shade-tolerant. The author grew two of them on their own north-facing balcony, where in autumn and winter there was almost no light at all, and yet they still bloomed abundantly, and even grown entirely indoors they can still produce a very beautiful appearance. It is very suitable as an indoor or office potted plant, blooming three seasons a year, beautiful and easy to care for, very much worth having.