Crassula ovata
Money Tree ( Crassula ovata )
The Money Tree ( Crassula ovata ), also called penny tree, is a species of the genus Crassula ( Crassula ). She is a Florenelement the capensis.
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- 5.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Crassula ovata grows as an upright, rounded, thick -stemmed, much branched, evergreen shrub, reaching heights of growth of up to 2.5 meters. The base is usually branched only sparsely. Sometimes a single main stem of up to 6 inches in diameter is formed. The succulent shoots are gray-green. The bark of older branches peels off in horizontal, brownish stripes.
The arranged opposite, ascending to spreading, green leaves are short-stalked with up to 5 millimeters. The fleshy, hairless, inverted egg-shaped, wedge-shaped at the base of the leaf blade is 3-9 inches long and 1.8 to 4 centimeters wide. The Spreitenspitze is pointed, and often carries a mounted Spitzchen. The sharp-edged leaf margins are often reddish in color.
Generative features
The flowering time is in South Africa in the cool winter months from June to August. The terminal inflorescence is a top round Thyrsus with numerous like Asia. It has a length and a diameter of about 5 centimeters. The inflorescence stem has a length of 15 to 18 millimeters and a diameter of 2 millimeters. The flower stems are 5 millimeters long.
The sweetly scented flowers are hermaphrodite radial symmetry and fünfzählig double perianth. The five about 2 millimeters long sepals are fused together at their base. The pink or white corolla is star-shaped and has a diameter of about 15 millimeters. Your lanceolate petals are 7 millimeters long and 2.5 millimeters wide. The filaments have a length of 5 mm.
The capsule fruit contains many tiny seeds.
Occurrence
Crassula ovata is common in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu -Natal in the Valley Bushveld on rocks. The range extends from Willowmore to East London (Eastern Cape ) and north to Queenstown and KwaZulu -Natal. Crassula ovata grows associated with Aloe, Euphorbia species, Portulacaria afra and other succulent plants.
Taxonomy
The first description was in 1768 as a cotyledon ovata by Philip Miller. George Claridge Druce put the type in 1917 in the genus Crassula. A synonym is nomenklatorisches Toelkenia ovata (Mill.) PVHeath (1993). More Crassula argentea Thunb are synonyms. ( 1778), Crassula portulacea Lam. (1786 ), Crassula obliqua Aiton (1789 ), Crassula articulata Zuccagni (1806 ), Crassula nitida Schönland (1903) and Crassula lucens Gram ( 1941).
Use
The money tree is used with some elite forms as an ornamental plant in subtropical gardens and as a houseplant. Crassula ovata cultivars of, for example, " Gollum ", and " Hobbit ".
The Khoi and other African peoples have eaten cooked the roots. The leaves were used in milk cooked in folk medicine.