Crassula alba buds

From the top, the three budding Crassula alba inflorescences can be seen expanding with promise. Small, leaf-like bract tips are protectively around them, although appearing squashed. The more precocious buds are already signalling pinkish red on the outsides of their petal lobes. The narrow, green leaves, slightly curving and twisting around the flowers to come, are spreading smooth, fleshy blades fringed by whitish, ciliate margins.

The plant will not be denied by the tall grass around. The red blooms on sturdy stem promise to be noticed from afar, preferably most by pollinator insects that recognise them as restaurants. All visitor insects are eternally oblivious of the pollinator agreements they are fulfilling, as untold generations of their ancestors did before them (iNaturalist).