Crassula moschata, Canterbury, New Zealand

Crassula moschata G.Forst.

Native stonecrop, Shore Stonecrop

Climate known 64 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Crassula moschata, commonly known as the Shore Stonecrop, Musky Stonecrop, or Musky Crassula, is a hairless, mat-forming, succulent, perennial herb. It is widespread on the subantarctic and cool temperate shores of the Southern Ocean.

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About the genus · Crassula

Crassula is a genus of succulent plants containing about 200 accepted species, including the popular jade plant. They are members of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae) and are native to many parts of the globe, but cultivated varieties originate almost exclusively from species from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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Family

Crassulaceae

Described by

G.Forst.

Native to

Tasmania, Antipodean Is., Chatham Is. +9

Wild records

743 in range· 519 open

At a glance

Warmest month

16°C

Feb, mean day; nights 11 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

1155mm/yr

12 wet months · peak May 111 mm (CHELSA)

Light

7–39DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Crassula, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 9 months (September to April and July in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1155 mm a year, wettest May at 111 mm, driest February at 82 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 39 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 4.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Bulliarda magellanica Comm.; Bulliarda magellanica Comm. ex DC.; Bulliarda moschata (G.Forst.) d'Urv.; Crassula magellanica (Willd. ex Schult.) Macloskie; Tillaea chiloensis Gay and 5 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Crassula, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 9 months (September to April and July in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (895 mm of 1155 mm) takes 9 months, January and March to October. Mean temperature moves 6.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: September to April and July.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1155 mm a year, wettest May at 111 mm, driest February at 82 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1155 mm a year at the habitat, 895 mm of it January and March to October. Wettest month May at 111 mm, driest February at 82 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 728 mm to 2446 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 39 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 3, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 4.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 4.3 °C, the absolute minimum 2.2 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 19.5 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 5.0 °C in July (across the envelope cells 1.1 °C to 8.9 °C), warmest day 15.7 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 4.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 333 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale

Figures by month

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	15 / 8–18	16 / 9–18	15 / 8–17	13 / 7–15	11 / 5–14	9 / 4–12	9 / 4–11	10 / 4–12	11 / 4–12	11 / 5–14	12 / 6–15	14 / 7–16
Night °C	11 / 5–15	11 / 6–15	10 / 5–14	9 / 4–12	7 / 3–11	6 / 2–10	5 / 1–9	5 / 1–9	6 / 2–10	7 / 2–10	9 / 3–12	10 / 4–13
Rain mm	94 / 57–195	82 / 55–155	100 / 66–190	97 / 61–207	111 / 70–234	111 / 66–245	98 / 62–230	94 / 55–232	93 / 48–221	97 / 48–230	86 / 50–192	92 / 60–203
DLI	38 / 34–45	32 / 27–38	23 / 18–29	15 / 11–20	9 / 5–13	7 / 3–10	8 / 4–11	13 / 9–17	21 / 17–25	29 / 26–34	36 / 34–42	39 / 37–45
RH %	63 / 60–68	63 / 61–68	63 / 61–67	63 / 61–67	63 / 61–67	63 / 60–67	63 / 60–67	62 / 60–67	62 / 60–66	62 / 60–66	62 / 60–66	63 / 60–67

Each figure is the median across the 333 grid cells holding the 723 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2738:6961 (-46.925, 168.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 2.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 4.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 19.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 333 distinct grid cells holding the 723 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2738:6961 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -47.00_168.125, lapse-corrected -43 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 9 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeTasmania, Antipodean Is., Chatham Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Argentina South, Chile South, Crozet Is., Falkland Is., Kerguelen, Macquarie Is., Marion-Prince Edward Is.

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-46.485, 169.594 · in the densest population, 196 records (26% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 743 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 519 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 98 km away. 50 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 20 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 743 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Joe Dillon, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) John Barkla, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Paul Bell-Butler, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Christopher Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Crassula moschata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The distribution and abundance of macro-invertebrates in the major vegetation communities of Marion Island and the impact of alien species

Christine Hänel (2010) · UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)

Phenology of indigenous and alien vascular flowering plants on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Fulufhelo Licken Mukhadi (2014) · SUNScholar (Stellenbosch University)

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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Crassula moschata G. Forst.