唐印 Paddle plant (Kalanchoe thyrsiflora)

Kalanchoe thyrsiflora is a species of flowering plant native to Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland.It is a succulent plant producing a stalk about 1m tall, which dies back after flowering. It forms a basal rosette of large, rounded, fleshy, stalkless leaves, which are grayish-green with red margins, covered with a white powdery bloom. The inflorescence is terminal and erect with densely clustered thyrse-like panicles of greenish waxy flowers with yellow recurved lobes, narrowly urn-shaped. The plant flowers from autumn to spring, and is common in grassveld amongst rocks.