Family: Crassulaceae
Plant: A low spreading succulent herb up to 20cm high with weak often sprawling stems.
Flowers: Tiny, 1mm diameter, pale yellow to pink, 4-petalled flowers in small clusters in the leaf axils. The inflorescence is an erect leafy spike up to 10cm high. Both the flowers and stems sometimes turn reddish.
Flowering: September-November.
Fruit: Star-shaped clusters of follicles.
Leaves: Narrow-lanceolate, 4-10mm long and 1-3mm wide, opposite, sessile, green or grey-brown but sometimes reddish.
Habitat: Moss covered sandstone rocks.
Features: A small herb with opposite green or grey-brown leaves. Tiny flowers.
Name:
Crassula From Latin = thick or fat (referring to its succulent leaves)
sieberiana After the Czech botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, Dry sclerophyll forest |
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