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Crassula alsinoides

Crassula alsinoides is a small, soft, creeping Crassula of moist, shady places in the African mountains and Madagascar, sometimes treated as a subspecies of C. pellucida. Unlike most crassulas it is not a sun-loving desert succulent: it grows in forest margins, damp banks and among rocks by streams at mid to high elevations.

Crassula alsinoides
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Forest margins, shaded banks, mossy rocks and streamsides in Afromontane forest and grassland, scrambling over the ground.

Recorded from 200 to 3550 m, median about 1950 m; measured sites are at 1540-2400 m.

BurundiCameroonCape ProvincesDR CongoEswatiniEthiopiaGulf of Guinea Is.KenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesRwandaSomaliaSudan-South Sudan

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.