Species · genus Kalanchoe · Crassulaceae

Bushveld Kalanchoe

Kalanchoe sexangularis N.E.Br.

Also known as: Redleaf Kalancho · Six-angle Kalanchoe

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Reference · K. sexangularis

Cultivars of K. sexangularis

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under K. sexangularis yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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A succulent subshrub from the warm, seasonally dry regions of southern Africa, storing water in its fleshy leaves and resenting wet feet. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and bright light, ideally several hours of direct sun, which deepens the red leaf coloring. Water only when the mix has dried out completely through the pot, then water deeply.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

13–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings or offsets root readily

Fertilizing

Light succulent feed a few times in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Yellow flowers in summer; leaves flush red in bright light

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs

Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae) contain bufadienolide cardiac glycosides. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (family inference)

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