Kalanchoe also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the Family Crassulaceae.

Kalanchoe lanceolata is a succulent, annual herb, growing up to 1.5 m high. A rosette of sessile, green or yellowish green leaves are borne on an erect, more or less, distinctly 4-angled, hairy stem that develops from a fairly swollen rootstock. Leaves are lanceolate, 60 to 150(180) × (10) 25 to 60(100) mm, smooth or with grandular hairs; margins are usually entire on upper leaves and scalloped on lower leaves. Attractive, star-like, apricot-yellow flowers are borne in an elongate thyrse on the axil of upper leaves.