The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Kalanchoe (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 216, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

K. carnea (flesh-coloured). fl. pink, fragrant, 1/2in. in diameter, disposed in corymbose cymes. l. fleshy, petiolate, elliptic-ovate, obtuse, crenate, brownish-green, 3in. to 5 1/2in. long, 1 1/2in. to 3in. broad. Stem, when old, forming a large bole. South Africa, 1886. An attractive, greenhouse, glabrous succulent.

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