Crassula clavata
A small rosette-forming Crassula endemic to the winter-rainfall Western and Northern Cape of South Africa, with club-shaped, often red-flushed leaves and heads of white flowers. It grows actively in the cool, wet winter and rests through the hot, dry summer. Give it full sun, a very gritty mix and water mainly from autumn to spring.
Where it grows wild
Grows on rocky slopes and in shallow, gritty soil in the Succulent Karoo and fynbos margins of the western Cape, from the Olifants River valley and Cederberg to the Tanqua and western Little Karoo. Detailed habitat notes were not found in the sources consulted; this is inferred from its record localities.
Records carry no elevations. Its localities run from near the west coast at Velddrif to inland mountain valleys, roughly sea level to about 1000 m.
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