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The jade plant, dollar plant, money tree, money plant, or friendship tree (botanic name Crassula ovata, Crassula portulacea--also "wrongly" identified as Crassula argentea, Crassula obliqua) is a succulent plant that sometimes has small pink or white flowers in winter.
Jade Plants are derived from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, where they can reach the height of 2.7 meters. They are propagated by stem or leaf cuttings. As succulents, they require very little water in the summer, and none in the winter, and will grow in full sun to light shade. Overwatering will cause them to lose their leaves and eventually the stem will rot away. However, they do not tolerate extreme heat or overexposure to direct sun very well, showing damage ranging from scorched leaves to loss of foliage and rotting stems. Most of the common species will tolerate a limited degree of frost but overexposure to cold weather will kill them. Mealybugs are common pests.