크라술라 파스키쿨라리스- Crassula fascicularis Lam.

과명	Crassulaceae (돌나물과)	속명	Crassula (대구돌나물속)
전체학명	[정명] Crassula fascicularis Lam.	추천명	크라술라 파스키쿨라리스

추천명변경: 파스키쿨라리스크라술라 -> 크라술라 파스키쿨라리스

An elegant little succulent shrub, with beautiful and fragrant spring flowers, ideal for pots, rockeries and fynbos gardens.

Crassula fascicularis is an erect, succulent shrublet, 150–400 mm high, branching from a slightly woody base. It has sessile (stalkless), narrow lance-shaped, upward-pointing, scarcely fleshy leaves, 20–40 mm long and 2–3 mm broad, on stems that are frequently reddish. They usually have tiny curved hairs along the margins, which give the leaves a silvery edge.

In spring and early summer (September–November), it has attractive, rounded to flat-topped clusters of cream-coloured to pale yellowish green or rarely white flowers. Each flower is 20–32 mm long, tubular, with lobes curled back, and often flushed with reddish pink. The flowers have no stalk. The base of the floral tube is enclosed in a green or red or red-streaked calyx, which is fringed with tiny white hairs. The flowers are strongly sweet scented, the scent growing even stronger at dusk.

According to the Red List of South African plants checked on 23 September 2015, the conservation status of this plant is Least Concern (LC). This species is not threatened and its wild population is stable.

Crassula fascicularis grows in fynbos on dry sandstone slopes, at 50 to 1 200 m altitude in the mountains of the Western Cape, from Gifberg near Vanrhynsdorp to the Langeberg Mountains near Bredasdorp, including the Cape Peninsula.

The name Crassula is the diminutive of the Latin crassus which means ‘thick’ or ‘fat’, referring to the fleshy nature of the genus as a whole. The name fascicularis means ‘clustered’ or ‘bundled’, from the Latin fasciculus meaning ‘a little bundle’ or ‘packet’, or ‘a bunch of flowers’, and referring to the clustered flowers.

Crassula fascicularis is widespread and variable in the wild, in terms of the size of the leaves, number of flowers and flower colour, and this is the cause of some of its many synonyms. It is found in the older literature under some of them, in particular Crassula odoratissima Andrews and Rochea odoratissima (Andrews) Link. The name odoratissima means ‘most scented’, from the Latin odoro meaning ‘to smell’ or ‘give off a fragrance’ and issima is the superlative. The name Rochea, the old name for some crassulas and which was sunk into synonymy under Crassula by Toelken in 1985, honours the Swiss botanical author Francois de la Roche, who died in 1813.

Crassula fascicularis was described by Lamarck in 1786. It was first illustrated in volume 1 of The Botanists’s Repository by Henry Charles Andrews, under the name Crassula odoratissima Andrews or sweet-scented crassula. The plant illustrated was raised in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in Hammersmith in about 1794, although it did not flower until 1796. They describe the scent of this plant to be so powerful at night that some may deem it almost offensive, but others consider it most agreeable and similar to that of the tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa).

Crassula fascicularis | PlantZAfrica (sanbi.org)

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