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Crassula coccinea (Red crassula)
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> Family: Crassulaceae > Genus:
Crassula
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The Red crassula (Crassula coccinea)
flowering in summer next to exposed Table Mountain sandstone rocks on
Kanonkop in the southern Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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The Red crassula (Crassula coccinea)
flowering in summer on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
The Red crassula (Crassula coccinea),
flowering in summer in the Erica Section of the Kirstenbosch Botanic
Garden with Table Mountain beyond, Cape Town. South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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A Short-horned grasshopper nymph on the Red
crassula (Crassula coccinea) flowering in summer on Cape Town's
Table Mountain, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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The Table Mountain Beauty butterfly (Aeropetes
tulbaghia), pollinating the Red crassula (Crassula coccinea)
flowering in summer on the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. |
Endemic to the Western Cape where it is found on
sandstone outcrops in fynbos, from the Cape Peninsula to about Mossel Bay.
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