Crassula elegance

Description

Crassula elegans is a beautiful and dwarf succulent with a fleshy or slightly woody base and short much-branched stems with fleshy, densely packed leaves, usually in four ranks. It grows up to 10 cm tall, including inflorescences. Leaves are smooth or covered with fine hairs or coarse rounded papillae. They are green to brown or purplish-red, ovate to lanceolate, triangular in cross-section The small flowers is lightly scented. They are white, cream or yellowish to light brown in colour, and appear in clusters on up to 6 cm long stalks in summer and autumn. It is native to the Western and Northern Cape into Namibia.