Crassula multicava
A mat-forming South African succulent 15–30 cm tall with rounded, dark green, opposite leaves and sprays of starry white to pink four-petalled flowers in winter, which also carry plantlets that drop and root. It grows in shade and semi-shade at forest margins, on river banks and in thickets along the southern and eastern coast, so it is one of the few succulents that does well out of full sun.
Where it grows wild
Grows at forest margins, in coastal thicket and scrub, and on shaded river banks and rocky slopes in the southern and eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. It forms dense mats in the dappled shade of shrubs and trees in humus-rich soil.
Mostly coastal and low: GBIF records with an elevation span 15–1131 m, median 103 m.
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