Crassula expansa subsp. expansa from under its rock

Living under a rock does not preclude performance. The good news is that one doesn’t even require a brain for doing one’s best. Being alive is enough. Ask any mosquito!

This Crassula expansa subsp. expansa plant may even benefit from its humble but sheltered base, capitalising on moisture conservation and temperature control afforded by its position in life.

As long as the white internodes can be elongated in the articulated, branching stems, the sun will be greeted, as well as whatever insects bother with such small flowers.

This is so for scale challenges in plants are matched by similar ones among hungry animals, be they insects or whatever (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Smith, et al, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist).