PlantFiles: Ox Tongue
Gasteria liliputana

Dommon name: dwarf gasteria, (klein-beestongopcell). This is a rare dwarf succulent perennial with leaves in a rosette. Leaves are 15-100mm lg x 8-14mm broad, strap-shaped with rounded or acute top and a smooth, mottled ep9idermis.
Flowers can be produced any time of year, peaking in midwinter to spring, pendulous, tubular and reddish pink in color. From Eastern Cape thickets. Grows in shallow soil in the shade of other plants. Used in various traditional medicines. They thrive in cultivation both indoor and outdoors, used as a potted plants or outdoor rockeries, tolerant of a wide range os soils and habitats. Drought tolerant, well-drained soil, occasionally moistened during dry summer months. Leaves may turn red if plant is stressed.

Short-stemed rosettes forming clumps;Dark green,spotted leaves tp 6 cm long;Inflorescence 10 cm long.

commonly sold plant at any nursery that deal with succulents, at least here in So Cal... is an intensely suckeing gasteria, seeming growing on top of itself in areas of limited space. If grew any faster, would make a good groundcover. Speckled irregular leaves (some short, some long). Good potted plant. Survives easily down to zone 9b.

Related to aloes. Red flowers have a little pouch at the base. Give them a well-drained soil, keep dryer in the winter.