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Crassula radicans (Haw.) D.Dietr.식물/들꽃-돌나물과(Crassulaceae) 2023. 3. 11. 16:37
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Origin and Habitat: Cape Province, South Africa. This plant has been found naturalized in Jersey (an island in the English Channel) and occasionally in warm temperate areas around the world.
Habitat and ecology: Crassula pubescens subs. radicans usually grows in rocky quartz fields and uses nurse plants to protect against frosts, harsh sun, trampling, etc. so one must look carefully under shrubs and trees to find them.Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Red Carpet
CHINESE (中文): 红稚儿Description: Crassula radicans (also known as Crassula pubescens ssp. radicans) is a low growing shrubby or creeping succulents up to 30-40 cm tall, with small emerald green oval leaves that blush deep red in bright light or cold temperatures and give an overall appearance of a succulent leafy carpet. It is similar to Crassula pubescens but has glabrous leaves. It becomes mat-forming in time and produces dense clusters of tiny white flowers. Some authors make C. radicans synonymous with Crassula pubescens.
Stem: Suffruticose, prostrate with ascending-erect tips, with spreading lateral branches that take root beneath, laxly leafy.
Leaves: 10-15(-25) mm long, and 6-8 mm wide, paired, united at the base, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, narrow, flattish, subacute or acute, mostly glabrous, smooth-edged. The leaves are emerald green and takes on a lovely red glow if grown in full sun.
Inflorescences: Peduncle elongate, slender, with distant leaf-scales, glabrescent, cymoso-corymbose at the summit, the cymules dense.
Flowers: Calyx-lobes linear, white, blunt, pubescent, keeled. Petals connate at base, panduriform, with an oblong, sub-apical dorsal gland. Stigma nearly sessile.Crassula radicans (llifle.com)
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