Crassula sebaeoides flowers

The bright yellow Crassula sebaeoides flowers grow in loose, thyrse-shaped, stem-tip clusters above the foliage, in profusion under favourable conditions. Yellow is not a very common Crassula flower colour. The five small sepals around the flower base are succulent.

The shallowly funnel-shaped corolla spreads its five, yellow petals that are hardly fused or tubular at the base. The stigma wings spread over the stamens that arise from below, around the ovary comprising five carpels. Each two-winged, big stigma is positioned laterally.

The specific name, sebaeoides is derived from the Sebaea genus name and the Greek word part -oides meaning resembling, referring to the flowers that resemble those of some Sebaea species.

Flowering happens from late winter to early summer.

The fruit is a follicle that releases ten or more seeds through a pore at its tip when they are ripe (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Smith, et al, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org).