Crassula muscosa using an opportunity

Stem brittleness of Crassula muscosa may become an asset when the rainy season forms new plants of the dropped-off stem bits. Always convenient if they had dropped in a convenient patch of silty mud. Long ago only one plant grew here, now progressed into a thriving colony. The soft, many-leaved, olive-green stems are erect and branch.

The photo was taken next to a dirt road at Dwarsrivier near Ladismith in the western Little Karoo (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010).