Crassula ovata is a large well-branched, compact, rounded, evergreen shrub, up to 6 feet (1.8 M) tall with glossy, dark grey-green, oval, succulent leaves and rounded heads of white to pink star-shaped flowers in early spring The stem is stout and gnarled and gives the impression of great age, and its branches are also short and stubby but well-proportioned. Branches are succulent, grey-green in color and in older specimens the bark peels in horizontal brownish strips The leaves are up to 2 inches (5 cm) long and up to 1.5 Inches (3.8 Cm) wide, egg-shaped to elliptic, often with a red margin and a somewhat pointed end. The stem is stout and gnarled and gives the impression of great age, and its branches are also short and stubby but well-proportioned.
Branches are succulent, grey-green in color and in older specimens the bark peels in horizontal brownish strips. The leaves are up to 2 inches (5 cm) long and up to 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) wide, egg-shaped to elliptic, often with a red margin and a somewhat pointed end. They are in opposite pairs, the one pair arranged at right angles to the next, and they are clustered towards the ends of the branches.,Crassula ovata is a large well-branched, compact, rounded, evergreen shrub, up to 6 feet (1.8 M)