Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bryophyllum pinnatum
Common name
Live Plant, Resurrection Plant
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, gardens, roadsides, disturbed sites, coastal environs, and along streams. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally coastal farther south.
Notes
Introduced shrub or perennial herb to 2 m high, suckering at the base. Stems and leaves fleshy. Stems cylindrical, hairless, glaucous. Leaves opposite each other, 5–25 cm long, 20–125 mm wide, flattened. Lower leaves simple, margins scalloped, upper leaves often compound with 3 or 5 oval leaflets. Tiny plantlets may occasionally be formed in the scalloped margins of these leaflets. These plantlets are more often produced if the leaves become detached from the stems. Flowers yellowish-green to dark red, 30-70 mm long, with 4 petals partially fused into a tube at the base. Calyx yellowish-green or pale green, streaked with pink or reddish blotches, 25–55 mm long, papery and much-inflated. Flowers hanging down, in loose clusters on stalks growing along the upper portion of the stem. Flowering June to August. Fruit papery and membranous, about 15 mm long.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW, with additional restrictions in the Central Tablelands and Riverina areas, NSW
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bryophyllum~pinnatum (accessed 6 January 2020)
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