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What kind of succulent plant from the Crassulaceae family is this?

Hello, this is a succulent plant of the Crassulaceae family, the scientific name Orostachys spinosa

A biennial herb. There are rosettes in the first year, densely covered with leaves. The rosette leaves are oblong, with semicircular, white, cartilaginous appendages at the apex, and a 2-4 mm long, white, cartilaginous spine in the center. The flower stem is 10-30 cm high; the leaves are alternate, broadly linear to oblanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, apex acuminate, with cartilaginous spines, and base sessile. Inflorescence terminal, narrow, spike-like or racemose, 5-20 cm long; pedicel 1 mm long, or sessile; bracts lanceolate to oblong, up to 4 mm long, with spines; sepals 5, Egg-shaped oblong, 2-3 mm long, apex acuminate, with spines and red spots; petals 5, yellow-green, ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 1 mm at the base Connate, apex acuminate; stamens 10, slightly longer than petals, anthers yellow; scales 5, nearly square, 0.7 mm long, apex slightly notched. Follicles 5, elliptic-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, upright, narrow base, 1.5 mm long; seeds oblong-ovate, 0.8-1 mm long. The flowering period is from July to August and the fruiting period is in September