Crassula moschata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crassula moschata, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. b Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191477433

Crassula moschata, photographed by Tim Park — fig. e Tim Park, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186858633

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Crassula moschata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Crozet Is.	CRZ	ANTARCTICA
Falkland Is.	FAL
Kerguelen	KEG
Macquarie Is.	MAQ
Marion-Prince Edward Is.	MPE
Antipodean Is.	ATP	AUSTRALASIA
Chatham Is.	CTM
New Zealand North	NZN
New Zealand South	NZS
Tasmania	TAS
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South	CLS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 61 in flower of 87 examined

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63%

60%

89%

61%

Proportion of examined Crassula moschata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	15	80%	55% to 93%
Feb	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
Mar	1	3	too few examined
Apr	1	1	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	2	2	too few examined
Jul	0	1	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	9	15	60%	36% to 80%
Nov	16	18	89%	67% to 97%
Dec	14	23	61%	41% to 78%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Crassula moschata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 61 of 87 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 543 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	2.5 °C	5.3 °C	9.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	10.0 °C	16.8 °C	18.5 °C
Annual rainfall	698 mm	1,087 mm	2,803 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	131 mm	239 mm	598 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 543 research-grade observations of Crassula moschata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Bulliarda magellanica Comm. ex DC.
Bulliarda moschata d'Urv.
Crassula magellanica (Willd. ex Schult.) Macloskie
Tillaea chiloensis Gay
Tillaea magellanica Willd. ex Schult.
Tillaea moschata DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.