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Crassula arborescens thriving on a cliff

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Sunny slopes among rocks, commonly found in the hilly country of the Little Karoo, furnish spectacular homes for the tree crassula or Crassula arborescens. In Afrikaans the names beestebul and beestebal exist, while in the USA the plant is known as the silver dollar plant.

The more names a plant has, the more impact it has had upon people; also the more diverse forms may exist, the more features are noted. Common names, like nicknames may be pejorative. But plants are not hypersensitive about slander; they do not litigate.

The Little Karoo, an important part of the distribution of this species, receives winter as well as summer rain, forming a transition zone between the Mediterranean climate of the Western Cape and the inland summer rainfall area (where the tree crassula also grows).

Whether summer or winter rain, there is often not too much of it in this land of extreme temperatures. So these squat little succulent trees, bigger than almost all of the other, about 150 Crassula species, are well prepared for eventualities (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; www.plantzafrica.com).

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