Description | Botanical study of a specimen of crassula ovata, common name jade plant. A specimen of this plant is pictured in tab. 100 of 'Hortus Elthamensis' (1732) by Johann Jakob Dillenius, which contains descriptions and drawings of plants in the Sherard Garden at Eltham.
Small plant with green leaves and pink flowers, shown open and in bud. Inscribed in ink 'Crassula Portulacae facie repens Hort. Elth. tab. 100.' |