Crassula coccinea L.

Perennial shrubs with few erect branches up to 0.6 m high, sparsely branched, branches 4-10 mm in diameter, internodes not visible between nodes, without roots at nodes, old leaves not deciduous. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 12-20(-25) x (4-)10-15 mm, acute, dorsiventrally flattened and scarcely convex on both surfaces, with lateral margins more or less curved upwards and with marginal cilia, green rarely brownish red. Inflorescence a cymose-capitate thyrse with few dichasia, with flowers usually sessile, with indistinct peduncle. Calyx: lobes lanceolate, 15-22 mm long and usually of different lengths, acute, with marginal cilia, slightly fleshy, green. Corolla tubular, fused at base for 5-7 mm, usually scarlet red but also white with various tinges of red; narrowly spathulate, 35-45 mm long, acute, with recurved part 4-5 mm broad. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong, 1-1.2 x 0.2-0.3 mm, usually rounded, slightly constricted towards base, scarcely fleshy, pale yellow.