Crassula
| Crassula | |
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| Crassula capitella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Subfamily: | |
| Genus: | Crassula L. |
| Type species | |
| Crassula perfoliata L.
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Crassula is a genus of succulent plants containing about 200 accepted species, including the popular jade plant (Crassula ovata).[1] They are members of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae) and are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties originate almost exclusively from species from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.[2]
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.
Taxonomy[]
Crassula was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 with 10 species.[3]
Etymology[]
The name crassula comes from the Latin, meaning thick, referring to the thickening of the succulent leaves.
List of selected species[]
- Crassula alata
- Crassula alba
- Crassula alpestris (Sand-Coated Crassula)[4]
- Crassula alstonii
- Crassula aquatica (common pigmyweed, water pygmyweed)
- Crassula arborescens (silver dollar plant, beestebul)
- Crassula atropurpurea
- Crassula ausensis
- Crassula ausensis ssp. titanopsis
- Crassula barbata
- Crassula barklyi (rattlesnake tail, wurmplakkie)
- Crassula biplanata
- Crassula brevifolia
- Crassula capitella
- Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora (aanteel-poprosie)
Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora
- Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora (aanteel-poprosie)
- Crassula clavata
- Crassula closiana
- Crassula colligata
- Crassula colorata (dense stonecrop)
- (silinderplakkie)
- Crassula columnaris (koesnaatjie)
- Crassula connata (sand pygmyweed)
- Crassula cotyledonis
- Crassula cultrata (plakkiebos)
- Crassula deceptor
- (norsveld plakkie)
- Crassula decumbens (scilly pigmyweed)
- Crassula deltoidea (silver beads, gruisplakkie)
- (small-leaf pygmyweed)
- Crassula elegans (elegant crassula)
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- Crassula exilis ssp. sedifolia
- Crassula exserta
- Crassula falcata
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- Crassula glomerata
- Crassula helmsii (swamp stonecrop)
- Crassula lactea (tailor's patch, Knysna crassula)
- (smallseed pygmyweed)
- Crassula marnieriana
- Crassula moschata (musky stonecrop, shore stonecrop)
- Crassula multicava (fairy crassula)
- Crassula muscosa (rattail crassula, watch chain, lizard's tail, zipper plant; syn. C. lycopodioides)
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- Crassula namaquensis ssp. comptonii
- Crassula natans
- Crassula nudicaulis
Crassula nudicaulis var. herrei- Crassula nudicaulis var. herrei
- Crassula nudicaulis var. platyphylla
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- Crassula obovata var. dregeana
- Crassula ovata (jade plant; syn. C. argentea, C. portulacea)
- Crassula ovata var. cristata
- Crassula ovata var. monstruosa
- Crassula peduncularis (purple stonecrop)
- Crassula pellucida
- Crassula pellucida var. marginalis
- [5]
- Crassula perfoliata
- Crassula perforata (string of buttons, sosatieplakkie)
- Crassula picturata
- (skurwemannetjie)
- Crassula pubescens (Jersey pigmyweed)
- Crassula pubescens ssp. radicans
- Crassula pubescens ssp. rattrayi
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- (red carpet)
- Crassula rubricaulis
- Crassula rupestris (rosary plant, kebab bush, concertina plant, sosatiebos, inrygertjie)
- Crassula rupestris ssp. marnierana
- (wrinkle-seed pygmyweed)
- Crassula sarcocaulis (bonsai crassula)
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- Crassula sericea var. hottentotta
- Crassula sieberiana (Austral stonecrop)
- (smoothseed pygmyweed)
- Crassula subaphylla
- Crassula tetragona
- Crassula tetramera
- Crassula thunbergiana
- Crassula tillaea (moss pygmyweed)
- (pricklyseed pygmyweed)
List of selected cultivars[]
- Crassula 'Buddha's Temple'
- Crassula 'Coralita'
- Crassula 'Dorothy'
- Crassula 'Emerald'
- Crassula 'Fallwood'
- Crassula 'Ivory Pagoda'
- Crassula 'Justus Corderoy'
- Crassula 'Morgan's Beauty'
- Crassula 'Moonglow'
- Crassula 'Petite Bicolor,' sometimes sold as Sedum 'Little Missy,' a cultivar of Crassula pellucida var. marginalis [6]
- Crassula 'Tom Thumb'
Gallery[]
Crassula deltoidea
References[]
- ^ "The Plant List: Crassula". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2013.
- ^ Crassula (genus) - Crassulaceae
- ^ Linnaeus 1753.
- ^ "Crassula (Crassula alpestris) in the Crassulas Database". Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Bussmann, R. W.; et al. (5 May 2006). "Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2 (22): 22. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-22. PMC 1475560. PMID 16674830.
- ^ "World of Succulents","Succulentopedia", Crassula 'Petite Bicolor', 2017. Online at https://worldofsucculents.com/crassula-petite-bicolor/
Bibliography[]
- Linnaeus, Carl (1753). "Crassula". Species Plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. pp. 282–283., see also Species Plantarum
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Categories:
- Crassula
- Crassulaceae genera