Jade plant
जेड पौधा
Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 76 cm
Crassulaceae
Also called Jade Stonecrop, Kerkybush, Kerky-Bush, Pink Joy, Pink-Joy
Formerly Cotyledon ovata, Crassula argentea, Crassula articulata, Crassula lucens, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Mozambique to SE. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia part
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- árbol de jade, planta de la moneda
- German
- Geldbaum
- Polish
- Grubosz jajowaty
- Japanese
- カネノナルキ, カゲツ, フチベニベンケイ
- Russian
- Толстянка яйцевидная
- Croatian
- Drvo žada
- Afrikaans
- Beestebal, Karkei, karka
- root
- T'karkai, umxhalaguba
- Catalan
- Llengües de gat
- Lithuanian
- Tikrasis storlapis
- Swedish
- paradisträd, penningträd, krassula
- Czech
- tlustice vejčitá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Crassula ovata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.