Species · genus Crassula · Crassulaceae

Redspot Stonecrop

Crassula capitella Thunb.

Growth habit
biennial or subshrub
Native range
Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia
Reference · C. capitella

Cultivars of C. capitella

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

No named cultivars catalogued under C. capitella 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 capitella is a succulent subshrub from the dry, sunny grasslands and rocky slopes of southern Africa, storing water in its fleshy leaves. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and water deeply only when the soil has dried out completely — wait until the lower leaves feel slightly soft before watering again. It rots quickly if left sitting wet, so err toward keeping it too dry rather than too moist.

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 12-21d)
Humidity
ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil
ai:claude-fable-5
Care
ai:claude-fable-5
Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 21 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings or offsets left to callus, then rooted

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Small white flowers on slender stalks; colours red in sun

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 12-21d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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