Crassula Ovata

Description: Commonly known as the Money Plant. It is native to South Africa.

Newest Review: ... a leaf - and that's my money plant, gifted to me by my mum . The money plant, Crassula Ovata (or Jade plant as it is known in China) comes from the succulent family, the same family as cactus plants . Luckily, it has no prickly bits, so is safe for little kiddy fingers and cats that like to eat everything. Luckily for the plant, this also means it it able to store water in the leaves and ... more

... roots to call on when I forget to water it! It is an attractive plant with bright green, thick, succulent, rubbery leaves , which turn reddish brown on the tips if left in sunlight! Don't worry, this doesn't mean it's dying - money plants LOVE the su...more

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Crassula Ovata: So easy to look after even I cant kill it . (592 words)
by - written on 05/07/09 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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I like house plants . They do not, however, seem to like me . Many innocent plants have entered my home, unaware of the neglect they would suffer at my hands - starvation, dehydration, abusive pruning - only to die a slow and painful death, and to end their lives unceremoniously dumped at the bottom of my garden waste bin. It's not that I'm rubbish at gardening - my garden plants thrive, because I make a point of going out and looking after them . My house plants, alas, get forgotten about in the day to day business of being a mum, buried behind piles of junk mail and left to gather dust. There is however one plant that has stubbornly refused to die ... Read the complete review

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