Jade plant
Crassula ovata
- Wants
- Bright direct
- Tolerates
- Bright direct down to bright indirect
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Pets
- Not safe
Why it wants that
Nothing shades a rocky southern-African hillside, so the plant is built to run its whole water budget on unfiltered overhead light.
Too little light
New growth comes out soft and stretched and the leaves stay flat green with no red edging, so branches end up too weak to hold themselves up.
Too much
Leaf margins flush red and, on a plant moved abruptly out of shade into fierce sun before it is established, pale scorched patches appear on the upper leaf faces.