Crassula acinaciformis Schinz

Perennials or biennials up to 1.3 m high when flowering, usually with a single rosette with erect leaves spirally arranged, old leaves remaining attached to stem. Leaves narrowly triangular to lanceolate, (80-)150-300(-400) x 30-60(-100) mm, sharply acute, often drying up from apices, dorsiventrally flattened and more or less canaliculate, glabrous but often with irregularly spaced teeth or cilia with a broad base, green to yellowish green. Inflorescence a flat-topped thyrse with numerous pedicel late flowers in many dichasia each producing new buds for a long time, with indistinct peduncle covered with leaf-like bracts gradually decreasing towards apex. Calyx: lobes broadly triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, acute and often tapering into a terminal hair, glabrous except for occasional marginal teeth, scarcely fleshy and with more or less membranous margin, yellowish green. Corolla tubular to cup-shaped, fused basally for 0.5-0.8 mm, pale yellow; lobes oblong-obovate, 3-4 mm long, rounded to somewhat hooded, recurved. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0.6-0.9 x 0.3-0.5 mm, more or less emarginate, somewhat constricted downwards, slightly fleshy, yellow. Flowering period: (February) March-June.