Species · genus Crassula · Crassulaceae

Jade Plant

Crassula arborescens (Mill.) Willd.

Also known as: Silver Dollar Plant · Silver-dollar Stonecrop · Tree Crassula · Tree Stonecrop

Growth habit

succulent subshrub or shrub

Native range

Cape Provinces

Reference · C. arborescens

Cultivars of C. arborescens

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under C. arborescens yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Crassula arborescens is a succulent subshrub from the Cape Provinces of South Africa, where it grows in bright, arid conditions and stores water in its thick, fleshy leaves. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and the brightest light you can offer, ideally some direct sun. Water deeply but infrequently, only once the soil has dried out completely to the bottom of the pot — when the leaves begin to feel slightly soft is your cue it is genuinely thirsty.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Stem or leaf cuttings left to callus, then rooted

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors; white to pink clusters when mature

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs

Silver jade — same ASPCA jade-plant listing (vomiting, incoordination). This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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