Crassula dichotoma flower

    Crassula dichotoma flower
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    Crassula dichotoma produces stalked, yellow or orange flowers in flat-topped clusters. The five fleshy sepals have red-brown marginal spots, sometimes near the tips only, similar to the leaf-spots.

    The flower has a short, cup-shaped corolla tube and five spreading, sometimes slightly recurving lobes in a star-shape. The petals may be oblong near the base and only tapering nearer their tips, or narrowing earlier to more acutely pointed tips.

    The corolla is often variably V-marked on the petals in a darker shade around its mouth, or red to red-brown on the yellow flowers. The orange flowers are yellow inside the cups, their petal margins sometimes purple. Flower diameter is about 9 mm.

    The five yellow anthers in the corolla mouth surround the five-pointed stigma, both sometimes slightly exserted. One anther in picture does not yet offer pollen.

    Flowering happens in spring (Frandsen, 2017; Smith, et al, 2017; Le Roux, et al, 2005; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).

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