Origin:  South Africa, East of Cape Province.

 Plant Description:  It develops with the age a trunk of 1 to 3 meters of height, thickness to store water, and very branched. Green fleshy leaves, made oval, of 3 to 9 cm in length by 1.8 to 4 cm wide, more or less reddish edged, that are growing by opposite pairs.

 Flowers:  They are born in clusters from a branched inflorescence, of white color.

 Growth:  Slow. 

Crassula ovata variegata

 Culture:  Ph 6.  Full sun for a good coloration of its decorative leaves. It resists the droughts well and adapts with facility to any type of land. They resist the cold. If it undergoes frozen, both the leaves and the branches can be wounded, but the central trunk survives and sprouts again in spring.

Crassula ovata cv "compact crosy"

 Phytosanitary Cares:  It is a resistant plant that usually does not give many problems in culture. A succulent one that could adapt to the interior and of which they exist numerous cultivar forms.