Crassula umbella
A small winter-growing Crassula from the winter-rainfall Western and Northern Cape of South Africa. Each stem carries a pair of leaves fused into a flat, rounded disc or shallow cup. It grows through the cool, wet winter and dies back or rests through the hot, dry summer, so the main challenge at home is getting the season right.
Where it grows wild
Field records come from rocky slopes in fynbos, renosterveld and arid thicket, including sandstone fynbos on mountain slopes. Small winter-growing crassulas of this kind usually shelter at the foot of rocks or shrubs, out of the full afternoon sun. Almost all observations fall between June and September, when plants are in leaf.
GBIF records carry no elevations. The representative climate point sits on a grid cell at about 720 m, and the species is recorded from lowland to mountain slopes.
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