Crassula multicava subsp. multicava

Fairy crassula, Fairy Crassula

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Fairy crassula is a naturalized perennial found in the Central Coast bioregion, persisting from cultivation in shaded, rocky places at the wildland-urban interface at elevations below 50 meters. Flowering from November to February, this plant produces cream or white flowers with pink or reddish tips, arranged in terminal panicles. Growing with erect or decumbent stems 20 to 40 centimeters tall that root at the nodes, it has multiple pairs of cauline leaves. Its ovate to wide-elliptic leaves are 20 to 50 millimeters long, green or yellow-green, with rounded or notched tips and occasional purple coloration on the undersides. The plant produces small plantlets in bract axils and bears 12 to 20 nearly spheric seeds with rows of rounded papillae.

Habitat: Persisting from cultivation, sparingly naturalized in shaded, rocky places at wildland-urban interface

Bloom period: Nov-Feb

Elevation: < 50 m

Bioregions: CCo

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