Crassula
| Crassula | |
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| Crassula capitella | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Crassula L. |
| Species | |
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Many, see text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tillaea | |
Crassula is a genus of succulent plants containing about 1480 accepted species, including the popular jade plant (Crassula ovata).[1] They are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties originate almost exclusively from species from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Crassulas are usually propagated by stem or leaf cuttings. Most cultivated forms will tolerate some small degree of frost, but extremes of cold or heat will cause them to lose foliage and die.
Etymology
The name crassula comes from the Latin, meaning thick, referring to the thickening of the succulent leaves.
Selected species
- Crassula alba
- Crassula alpestris
- Crassula alstonii
- Crassula anomala
- Crassula aquatica (common pigmyweed, water pygmyweed)
- Crassula arborescens (silver dollar plant, beestebul)
- Crassula ausensis
- Crassula ausensis ssp. titanopsis
- Crassula bakeri
- Crassula barklyi (rattlesnake tail, wurmplakkie)
- Crassula capitella
- Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora (aanteel-poprosie)
- Crassula clavata
- Crassula coccinea
- Crassula columella (silinderplakkie)
- Crassula columnaris (koesnaatjie)
- Crassula colorata (dense stonecrop)
- Crassula connata (sand pygmyweed)
- Crassula corallina
- Crassula cornuta
- Crassula cotyledonis
- Crassula cultrata (plakkiebos)
- Crassula decidua (norsveld plakkie)
- Crassula decumbens (scilly pigmyweed)
- Crassula dejecta
- Crassula deltoidea (silver beads, gruisplakkie)
- Crassula drummondii (small-leaf pygmyweed)
- Crassula dubia
- Crassula elegans (elegant crassula)
- Crassula erosula
- Crassula exilis
- Crassula exilis ssp. sedifolia
- Crassula falcata
- Crassula garibina
- Crassula gillii
Crassula nealeana - Crassula globularioides
- Crassula helmsii (swamp stonecrop)
- Crassula herrei
- Crassula hirtipes
- Crassula humbertii
- Crassula hystrix
- Crassula lactea (tailor's patch, Knysna crassula)
- Crassula longipes (smallseed pygmyweed)
- Crassula marchandii
- Crassula marnieriana
- Crassula mesembryanthemoides
- Crassula mesembryanthemopsis
- Crassula milfordiae
- Crassula moschata (musky stonecrop, shore stonecrop)
- Crassula multicava (fairy crassula)
- Crassula muscosa (rattail crassula, watch chain, lizard's tail, zipper plant; syn. C. lycopodioides)
- Crassula namaquensis
- Crassula namaquensis ssp. comptonii
- Crassula nealeana
- Crassula nudicaulis
Crassula nudicaulis var. herrei- Crassula nudicaulis var. herrei
- Crassula nudicaulis var. platyphylla
- Crassula obovata
- Crassula obovata var. dregeana
- Crassula orbicularis
jade plant (Crassula ovata)
- Crassula ovata (jade plant; syn. C. argentea, C. portulacea)
- Crassula ovata var. cristata
- Crassula ovata var. mostruosa
- Crassula parvisepala
- Crassula pedicellosa
- Crassula pellucida
- Crassula pellucida var. marginalis
- Crassula pentandra[2]
- Crassula perfoliata
- Crassula perforata (string of buttons, sosatieplakkie)
- Crassula picturata
- Crassula plegmatoides
- Crassula pruinosa (skurwemannetjie)
- Crassula pubescens (Jersey pigmyweed)
- Crassula pubescens ssp. radicans
- Crassula pubescens ssp. rattrayi
- Crassula pyramidalis
Crassula socialis - Crassula radicans (red carpet)
- Crassula rogersii
- Crassula rupestris (rosary plant, kebab bush, concertina plant, sosatiebos, inrygertjie)
- Crassula rupestris ssp. marnierana
- Crassula saginoides (wrinkle-seed pygmyweed)
- Crassula sarcocaulis (bonsai crassula)
- Crassula sarmentosa
- Crassula schmidtii
- Crassula sericea
- Crassula sericea var. hottentotta
- Crassula sieberiana (Siberian pygmyweed)
- Crassula socialis
- Crassula solierii (smoothseed pygmyweed)
- Crassula streyi
- Crassula deceptor
- Crassula susannae
- Crassula tecta
- Crassula tetragona
- Crassula tillaea (moss pygmyweed)
- Crassula viridis (pricklyseed pygmyweed)
- Crassula volkensii
Notable cultivars
- Crassula 'Buddha's Temple'
- Crassula 'Coralita'
- Crassula 'Dorothy'
- Crassula 'Fallwood'
- Crassula 'Ivory Pagoda'
- Crassula 'Justus Corderoy'
- Crassula 'Morgan's Beauty'
- Crassula 'Tom Thumb'
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References
- ↑ "The Plant List: Crassula". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2013.
- ↑ Bussmann, R. W., et al. (2006). Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2 22.
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