Fancy Stack of Triangles
My favorite today: Crassula ericoides (Crassula pyramidalis x congesta)
I have a passion for crassulas, especially those that I see for the first time. 😍 I just have to get them! I'm sure you understand what I mean. 😜 So, this was one of those plants that when I saw it, I realized that it is mine! 😘 I spent a lot of time searching for its name and the closest I found at the time (18 months ago) was Crassula ericoides. Most likely it's a hybrid and today I can find it under the Crassula pyramidalis x congesta hybrid name. I do not know whether it is the correct cross or not, but there is no way to find out. 🤓
Anyways, enough with names, look at this succulent! 🤩 It just has all the street light colors! ❤️💛💚 When I first got it, it was totally green. 🌵 So, its stressed colors came for me as a bonus and not the main attraction. Initially, I fell in love with its shape - a fancy stack of triangles with equal thickness all along the leaves, not like the leaves of Crassula Buddha's Temple, which become paper-thin at the tips. Also, the leaves of this new crassula stay flat and do not curve, which I find particularly cool. 😎
This specific specimen has a single root. I can tell you that importing a large crassula intact without all the branches falling off the main stem is difficult. 😇 And this beauty made it! 😍
As you can see its lower leaves dry out and the crassula becomes leggy. When it happens, I transfer it into a deeper pot. However, the next step will be to he-head each branch and make it short and to propagate the tops, of course. That way, the plant will develop more branches and become bushier. ❤️💛💚
Because of its beauty, performance, AND rarity, this variety is very high on the list of my favorite crassulas. 😍
It is pictured in a 4" pot.