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A succulent plant that came to our homes from sultry Africa, which taught him to independently make reserves of moisture for the period of drought in its stems and leaves. On a fragile erect stem, the Fat Woman shows the world corymbose inflorescences collected from small stellate flowers
Rod Crassula
Three hundred species of herbaceous and woody plants with succulent leaves represent the genus on Earth
Crassula (Crassula) or
Fat woman
Far fewer species are grown in culture than in the wild. So, in Europe, about 6 dozen species of plants are grown, adorning the world with thick fleshy leaves, the surface of which seems to be covered with wax or hairy fluff. Leaves can be collected in a dense rosette or oppositely arranged on a succulent stem.
On the erect, sometimes fragile, stem, a graceful corymbose inflorescence of small, but spectacular star-shaped flowers, closely pressed to each other, blossoms.
Varieties
* Tree fat woman (Crassula arborescens) is a succulent shrub that grows up to almost a meter in height. Its gray-green succulent rounded leaves are decorated with a red border. In spring and summer, paniculate inflorescences appear, collected from white or pink miniature stellate flowers with sparsely protruding stamens.
* Cooper's Fat Woman (Crassula cooperi) is a small bushy plant with succulent oval-lanceolate leaves. Nature has marked the surface of the leaves with red dots, similar to mysterious footprints. In summer, paniculate inflorescences of pink flowers appear.
* Fatty woman pierced-leaved (Crassula perfoliata) is a weakly branching succulent shrub with erect stems. In the second half of summer, large paniculate bright inflorescences bloom, decorating succulent leaves, the shape of which varies from triangular to lanceolate.
* Fat woman is ovoidi (Crassula ovata) is a highly branched shrub with thick stems. It is often grown in the bonsai style and is called “
tree of happiness . For the shape of the leaves resembling small coins, the tree is called “
Monetary And promise a rich life to the owners of the plant.
* Fat woman collective (Crassula socialis) - miniature rosette of triangular toothed green leaves with miniature inflorescences of bell-shaped flowers of white hue, appearing in spring.
Growing
Born in hot Africa, the Fat Woman prefers to settle indoors in our area, choosing the sunniest places. Moreover, the air temperature in winter should not fall below the thermometer mark "plus 7". Only in areas with a mild climate will it be able to grow outdoors if you provide it with a well-protected place in the sun.
The soil for the plant needs sandy, freely permeable moisture, so that regular watering, which does not decrease in winter, does not create stagnation of water, which is fatal for Fatty. During the flowering period of the plant, watering is required abundant.
To maintain the appearance, Fat women remove wilted inflorescences and yellowed leaves.
Reproduction
You can propagate by sowing seeds, or by stem or leaf cuttings.
Sowing seeds is carried out in the spring, not burying them in the soil, but scattering them over the surface. Seedlings appear at an air temperature of 15 to 20 degrees. When the seedlings grow to a size that makes it possible to take them in hand, they are seated in personal containers.
In summer, it can be propagated by stem cuttings, for which 5-6 cm cuttings are harvested. Within a day, the cut dries up, and then the cutting is buried in wet sand.
In spring or summer, a similar procedure can be carried out with leafy cuttings.
Enemies
Since the Fat Woman is hygrophilous, water for her is both life and death. With an excess of moisture in the soil, the plant is affected by gray rot, leading to decay of the flowers. Therefore, the device of a good drainage system for a plant is the key to its health.
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