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This dwarf Crassula is an attractive slow
growing plant that can be easily housed in a small place.
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Description:
Crassula deceptor is a very variable small succulent
subshrub that stays relatively low and clumps readily.
Stem: Up to 15 tall.
Leaves: 1,5-2 cm long,
in
overlapping pairs along a usually
unbranched
stem, tightly imbricated, round +/- pointed in the shape of
canoes which stack off a central stem and produce a square pillar.
Grey-green covered with a light, white powdery (pruinose) surface. These
characters preserve moisture and protect from strong sunlight.
Flowers: Produces a few-branched loose cyme, of very small,
pinkish sweet-scented flowers.
Blooming season: Flowers appears in every time of the yeas when
conditions are appropriate, but they tend to be produced mainly during
winter as these are basically a southern hemisphere plants.
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Easy to flower and easy to grow, it is a favourite of many hobbyists.
Produces pairs of attractive and interesting canoe shaped grey
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Family: Crassulaceae
Scientific Name:
Crassula
deceptor Schönl. & Bak.f.
Origin: It is a native of Namaqualand and Cape Province,
South Africa.
Synonyms :
- Crassula deceptrix Schoenl
Crassula deceptor var deceptrix
NOTE: Crassula deceptor was
incidentally called Crassula deceptrix (an invalid
feminine form therefore reduced to synonymy and corrected in Jacobsen's
(1974) Lexicon)
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The flowers of Crassula in general and of C. deceptor in particular are
very tiny and give the impression that don’t open, but it is only an
impression.
Cultivation:
Of easy cultivation, they will require a free draining
compost and good light to keep the plants compact and encourage leaf
colour and flowering. Needs regular water in summer,
but reduce watering during winter month , fairly drought tolerant
elsewhere. The white pruinose stem coatings of the plants in our
collection sometime is not so intense as those of the plants in their
natural habitat but the difference in coating is thought due to the
higher humidity and less intense sunlight of our climate.
After growing
for several years
tend to
become untidy, and should be cut very short or restarted from cuttings.
Crassulas are sensitive to
mealybugs.
Propagation: Leaf or stem
cuttings. |
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