Indoors
Jade plant
Crassula ovata
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The jade plant, also called the money tree, comes from South Africa. It is a succulent with fleshy leaves that can live for many years and grow thick, branching trunks. It needs sun and little water.
Jade plant and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- unknown principle: vomiting, depression, incoordination
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 14 days in summer (April to September), every 30 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 10–30 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 6 weeks
- Repotting
- every 3 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
A succulent: water when the soil is quite dry, in winter hardly at all. It likes sun.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.