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A Crassulaceae, or even orpin personal, occurs as personal of dicotyledons. It store a lake in their succulent leaves. It is witnessed worldwide, however mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, typically inside prohibitionist and/or cold areas in which water supply can be barely. A personal includes just about 1,400 metal money within 33 genera.

There is no member of this personal is an significant crop plant, but numerous come popular for horticulture; many members have a freakish intriguing appearance, & come quite healthy, occasionally looking for single minimum care. Familiar coinage include a Jade plant or "money tree", Crassula ovata.

Classification around a personal is hard because numbers of of the metal money hybridize readily, two in the uncivilized & in cultivation. A bit of older classifications involved a Crassulaceae in the Rosales, but fresh schemes address the children in the choose Saxifragales.

CAM photosynthesis (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) is named fallowing a personal, because a pathway was number 1 found inside crassulacean plants.

Genera
Adromischus Aeonium Aichryson Cotyledon Crassula Dudleya Echeveria Graptopetalum Greenovia HylotelephiumFlowering Sempervivum hirta subsp. hirta (syn. Jovibarba globiferum subsp. hirtum) Hypagophytum Jovibarba Kalanchoe Lenophyllum Monanthes Orostachys Pachyphytum Perrierosedum Phedimus Pistorinia Prometheum Pseudosedum Rhodiola RosulariaSempervivum sobolifera (syn. Jovibarba globiferum subsp. globiferum), Hen and chicks Sedum Sempervivum Thompsonella Tylecodon Umbilicus Villadia

The Crassulaceae
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Breizcrassulaceae
Large photo gallery of Crassulaceae species, with descriptions. In French and English.

Description of Crassulaceae
Habit and leaf form; Anatomy; Morphology; Physiology; Biochemistry; Geography.

Reia's The Crassulaceae
Large photo gallery of Crassulaceae species, with notes on origin, bloom time, and flower color.

Crassulaceae.com
Botanical database and photo gallery of the American Crassulaceae. In English and German.






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