Gasteria Species, Lawyer's Tongue, Ox Tongue (Gasteria obliqua)

by Kell Apr 24, 2020 4:02 PM

"Lawyer's Tongue" bicolor on display at the Gaiser Conservatory greenhouse, Spokane, WA

G. maculata's flower

flowering in Pasadena Huntington GArdens end of March, California

march flower

small clump growing in Pasadena, California's Huntington Gardens.

southern California under synonym G maculata

flowers

variegated specimen

G. maculata

Unusual form ofter sold as Gasteria caespitosa, with thin, twisted leaves

flowers fully open

growing outdoors in partial sun, zone 10a southern California winter

This is Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor in a plant show

In a plant show

Luthy Botanical Garden, Peoria, IL 4-6-07

U of M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3-08

At UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.

3-2009, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI

My garden, 09/20/2009.

This is my Gasteria "Ox Tongue" with several "Pups"

With Haworthia truncata. Lesotho, southern Africa. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Spath, the owner of Spath Gardens, for landscape design and installation in Southern California. Copyright of Jeremy Spath.

Photo courtesy and copyright of Cok Grootscholten of Succulent Nursery, Holland, a nursery and formidable private succulent collection. http://public.fotki.com/Grootscholten/plant-collections/

Gasteria bicolor var. fallax. Copyright Cok Grootscholten, Succulent Nursery, Holland, a nursery and formidable private succulent collection. http://public.fotki.com/Grootscholten/plant-collections/

In the 2013 CACSS Plant Show in Phoenix, AZ, April 5, 2013. Gasteria bicolor var liliputana

Gasteria bicolor. Copyright Cok Grootscholten, Succulent Nursery, Holland, a nursery and formidable private succulent collection. http://public.fotki.com/Grootscholten/plant-collections/

Copyright Cok Grootscholten, Succulent Nursery, Holland, a nursery and formidable private succulent collection. http://public.fotki.com/Grootscholten/plant-collections/