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Crassula coccinea
Also called Red Stonecrop, Rochea
Crassula coccinea, the red crassula, is a plant in the stonecrop family from South Africa.
Red crassula has been cultivated for more than three centuries. It is valued by gardeners both for the vivid color of its blooms and for ease of cultivation. Plants do require a sandy soil that is acidic and to be well watered during the local winter season.
The botanist and horticulturalist William Curtis wrote of the species in a publication issued in 1800 saying, "We have no doubt but that when this superb species of Crassula was first introduced from the Cape by Prof. Bradley, of Oxford in 1714, it was regarded as a kind of Merveil de la Nature; even now that it is common, we scarcely know any succulent that is superior to it, whether we regard its grandeur, the curious growth of its leaves, or the rich colour of its scarlet blossoms, readily produced on plants of a moderate size."
The natural range of the red crassula is in the Western Cape province of South Africa from the Cape Peninsula to Still Bay. It has also become naturalized in two areas of New Zealand, Rangitoto Island in the Auckland area and Camp Bay on the Banks Peninsula.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crassula coccinea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
