Crassula

Crassula
Crassula capitella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Crassula L.
Species
Many, see text.
Synonyms
Tillaea

Crassula is a large genus of succulent plants containing many species, including the popular Jade Plant, Crassula ovata. They are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties are almost exclusively 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.

Selected species

• Crassula alba
• Crassula alpestris
• 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 columnaris
• Crassula colorata (Dense Stoncrop)
• Crassula connata (Sand Pygmyweed)
• Crassula corallina
  

  Crassula lactea
• Crassula cornuta
• Crassula cultrata (Plakkiebos)
• Crassula decidua (Norsveld Plakkie)
• Crassula decumbens (Scilly Pigmyweed)
• Crassula dejecta
• Crassula deltoidea (Silver Beads, Gruisplakkie)
• Crassula drummondii (Small-leaf Pygmyweed, Smallleaf 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, Krysna Crassula)
• Crassula longipes (Smallseed Pygmyweed)
• Crassula marchandii
• Crassula marnierana
• Crassula mesembryanthemoides
• Crassula mesembryanthemopsis
• Crassula milfordiae
• Crassula moschata
• Crassula multicava (Fairy Crassula)
• Crassula muscosa (Rattail Crassula, Watch Chain, Lizard's Tail, Zipper Plant)
• 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)
  • Crassula ovata var. cristata
• Crassula parvisepala
• Crassula pedicellosa
• Crassula pellucida
  • Crassula pellucida var. marginalis
• Crassula pentandra^[1]
• 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, Wrinkleseed 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 tecta (syn. 'C. 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'

References

1. ^ Bussmann, R. W., et al. (2006). Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2 22.