''Kalanchoe'' × ''poincarei'' is a species of ''

Kalanchoe ''Kalanchoe'' , also written ''Kalanchöe'' or ''Kalanchoë'', is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A ''Kalanchoe'' species was one ...

'' native to southern

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. Its

scientific name In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

is often misapplied to ''K. suarezensis'' and ''K. mortagei'', but ''K.'' × ''poincarei'' is very different from them. The true ''K.'' × ''poincarei'' is a natural

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involving ''K. beauverdii'', with similar sprawling stems up to 3 m in length, and not known in cultivation, whereas ''K. suarezensis'' and ''K. mortagei'' are erect, 30~60 cm tall and cultivated as ornamentals.

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