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Kalanchoe orgyalis
Place ideally in a sunny location, but can be placed in partial shade.
Always water a few days after the substrate has dried out. Reduce watering in winter.
It can tolerate -3.9 °C in the short term. However, the plant is not hardy.
The colours of this Kalanchoe range in shades of rust, bronze to grey and the tiny hairs on the surface of the leaves give the plant an almost metallic sheen.
Kalanchoe orgyalis or also Kalanchoe antanosiana, Kalanchoe cantonasyana or Copper Spoons, depending on the shape and colour of the leaves, is a xerophytic (drought resistant) shrub growing on rocky soil.
The surface of its stiff leaves is covered with characteristic rusty brown hairs, sometimes producing a metallic sheen. The undersides of the leaves turn bronze to grey. In winter, partial leaf drop of the lower leaves is to be expected. The stems grow stout, erect and abundantly branched. In the wild in Madagascar it can grow up to a metre high, but here it grows to about 40 cm.
Yellow flowers are rather rare on this plant, but they do bloom occasionally.
It grows quite slowly, but with more abundant watering it will grow much faster. By shortening the stems, the desired size can be achieved and the plant can be shaped into a nice tree-like plant. The distinctively atypically coloured colopes are an ornament to any collection and even when grown alone they impress with the sheer elegance of their leaves.