Species · genus Crassula · Crassulaceae

Calico Kitten

Crassula pellucida L.

Also known as: Variegated Trailing Jade · Trailing Crassula

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Angola, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Reference · C. pellucida

Cultivars of C. pellucida

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

No named cultivars catalogued under C. pellucida 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 pellucida is a succulent subshrub from southern and eastern Africa, with fleshy leaves that store water against dry spells. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and bright light, ideally some direct sun where you can provide it. Water deeply but infrequently, only once the soil has dried out completely — when the mix is dry several inches down and the leaves feel slightly soft rather than firm.

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 10-21d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 21 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings root readily where they touch soil

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Small white to pale-pink flowers; foliage reddens in bright light

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 10-21d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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