Crassula vaginata subsp. vaginata

Crassula vaginata subsp. vaginata, commonly the white stonecrop or yellow crassula, is a robust perennial, an erect and little-branched succulent reaching 50 cm in height.

There is a low level leaf rosette, while smaller stem leaves grade down in size to the top below the inflorescence. The leaves are linear to lanceolate in shape, sharply pointed and hairy or smooth, but with club-shaped hair fringes along the margins. The bases of the decussate leaf-pairs are fused. Old leaves persist on the stems. 

Scented flowers, coloured white, cream, yellow, red or pink are known. The inflorescence is a flat-topped, much-branched thyrse. An inflorescence is about 10 cm in diameter. Flowers appear from before midsummer until after midautumn. 

That is the case for this plant that grows throughout tropical Africa and parts of North Africa and Arabia. The species distribution in South Africa is in the Eastern Province, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, as well as in east Africa. 

Given the size of the distribution, the habitat is varied, mostly moist grassland at different elevations. The subspecies is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Smith, et al, 2017; Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; Smith, et al, 1997; Germishuizen, 1982; JSTOR; iNaturalist; iSpot; www.zimbabweflora.co.zw; http://redlist.sanbi.org).