Crassula cultrata flowers and buds

The many-flowered inflorescence of Crassula cultrata in picture does not yet show much of the elongation that usually separates the branched clusters of flowers up the erect flower stalk. Clusters at or near the top are sometimes bigger than the ones lower down.

The five greenish cream sepals are fleshy, pointed and shorter than the five white petals that point up in tubular fashion. Old flowers in picture have brown corollas already while their surrounding calyces hold colour and fleshiness for longer (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Smith, et al, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist).