Crassula pellucida
A creeping, soft-leaved succulent groundcover of eastern and southern Africa, with small rounded leaves and small pink-white starry flowers in late summer or autumn. Unlike most crassulas it grows in shaded, rocky, forested places, and it is very variable, with four subspecies. It is an easy trailing plant for bright shade and moderate watering.
Where it grows wild
A creeping groundcover or low spreading plant of shaded, rocky, forested areas, forest margins and damp slopes. The typical subspecies grows in the southern Cape forests from Cape Town to East London.
Recorded elevations are 48–2000 m, but only eight records carry one. Many records are from the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg foothills and escarpment, well above the median of 105 m.
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