Crassula colorata
A tiny annual succulent, 1.5–15 cm tall, from southern and inland Australia. It germinates after autumn–winter rain, turns red in the sun and flowers in late winter and spring (August–October), then dies, surviving the hot summer as seed. Grow it from seed each autumn in full sun and a gritty mix, keeping it cool and moist until it sets seed.
Where it grows wild
Open, sunny ground: among rocky outcrops, on roadsides and in low-lying areas on sandy or loamy soils over ironstone or granite. In inland New South Wales it is recorded in open shrubland, gidgee, mulga and white cypress-pine woodland, and on clay backplains.
A lowland to low-inland plant of plains and outcrops; elevations are rarely recorded.
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