Crassula pyramidalis about to be crowned

The leaves at the tip of this Crassula pyramidalis stem have recently been parted by the beginnings of an inflorescence. Little is discernible other than the early development of a very different, olive-green patch, roughly and knobbly textured.

Some C. pyramidalis plants in the Little Karoo have been noticed to vary consistently in three discernible levels of stem thickness. This one belongs to the thicker form. The leaf-tips in all forms angle up in the four corners of the unusual leafy stems (Louis Jordaan, personal communication; Frandsen, 2017; Smith, et al, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Moriarty, 1997; iNaturalist).