Species · genus Crassula · Crassulaceae

Baby Pine Of China

Crassula tetragona L.

Also known as: Karkai · Kerkei · Pygmyweed

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Cape Provinces

Reference · C. tetragona

Cultivars of C. tetragona

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

No named cultivars catalogued under C. tetragona 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 tetragona is a succulent subshrub from the arid Cape Provinces of South Africa, with upright stems and narrow, fleshy needle-like leaves that store water. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and bright sun; let the soil dry out completely and water only when the leaves begin to feel slightly soft or the mix is dry several inches down. It rots quickly if kept wet, so err toward neglect.

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 tip cuttings left to callus, then rooted in dry mix

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in spring and summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Small white-cream star flowers, occasional indoors

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 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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