Crassula sarcocaulis subsp. sarcocaulis flowers

The flowers of Crassula sarcocaulis subsp. sarcocaulis can be seen from spring to autumn. Bees enjoy this long blooming season, as they are avid users of this nectar resource in spite of the flower fragrance. The flower odour is sometimes considered to be unpleasant by people, who have generally left nectar consumption to the gods since the times of classic Greece.

The flower buds are sometimes white, sometimes pink. White, creamy white or slightly yellow flowers grow in clusters at stem tips. The flower faces upwards. It is small with pointed sepals around the corolla base. An earlier name of the plant, C. parvisepala refers to the smallness of the sepals. The sepals visible in the picture here are not really smaller than those of many other Crassula species. The tube-shaped corolla opens at the mouth with recurving petal tips and prominently protruding black anthers (Onderstall, 1984).