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5. Pinch Off the Tips of Branches. Encourage your jade plant to be fuller and bushier by snipping off tender new shoots from the end of branches. This encourages the jade plant to grow out instead ...
If water runs straight through your plant’s pot or the potting soil cracks and shrinks away from the pot’s sides, it may be time to repot your plant into fresh soil. Related: The 7 Best ...
Falling into the succulent family, plant expert Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, also known as “The Houseplant Guru," says that there are many different types of jade plants, but the common Crassula ovata ...
Crassula ovata, commonly known as jade plant, lucky plant, money plant or money tree, is a succulent plant with small pink or white flowers that is native to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, and Mozambique; it is common as a houseplant worldwide. [2]
Abscission (from Latin ab- 'away' and scindere 'to cut') is the shedding of various parts of an organism, such as a plant dropping a leaf, fruit, flower, or seed. In zoology , abscission is the intentional shedding of a body part, such as the shedding of a claw , husk, or the autotomy of a tail to evade a predator.
Some experimentation on plant litter from marcescent trees indicates that keeping the leaves above ground may increase the amount of photodegradation the leaves are exposed to. Because some marcescent species' leaves do not decompose well, the increased photodegradation may allow them to decompose better once they finally fall off the tree.
Crassula is a genus of succulent plants containing about 200 accepted species, [1] including the popular jade plant (Crassula ovata).They are members of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae) and are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties originate almost exclusively from species from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
It blooms in summer, with typical star-shaped Crassula white or pink flowers. [3] [4] The terminal inflorescence consists of thyrses that are rounded at the top and is 5 to 8 centimeters high. It has a lot of dichasia. The 4 millimeter thick inflorescence stalk is 15 to 30 millimeters long and the flower stalk 10 to 12 millimeters long.