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Gasteria rawlinsonii

Gasteria rawlinsonii in flower, in cultivation
Common names: Baviaanskloof cliff gasteria (Eng.); kransbeestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden November 2009 This Gasteria is a long-lived, drooping succulent shrub with long ... capsule is 18 mm long and the black seeds are 3-4 mm wide. Gasteria rawlinsonii is restricted to the Baviaanskloof and ... of the Albany Thicket Biome (Mucina & Rutherford 2006). Gasteria rawlinsonii shares its habitat with other ...

23 / 11 / 2009 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria tukhelensis

Close up of flowers,flowering at Kirstenbosch
Common names: Tugela ox-tongue (Eng.), Tugela-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... Jaarsveld Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden May 2007 Gasteria tukhelensis is a more or less stemless succulent, up ... black, 5-7 mm long and 2-3 mm broad seeds are released. Gasteria species occur more or less in a continuous belt ... in the dry Tugela River region. With the discovery of Gasteria tukhelensis this gap was filled. This species ...

28 / 05 / 2007 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria pillansii

Gasteria pillansii inflorescence
Common names: Namaqua gasteria (Eng.); Namakwa-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... Jaarsveld Kirstenboch National Botanical Garden May 2005 Gasteria pillansii is stemless, 50-200 X 60-400 mm, ... seeds are 4-5 x 2.5 mm. Flowering time: November to April. Gasteria pillansii is endemic to the dry winter rainfall ... hirsuta . There is a marked vegetative resemblance to Gasteria disticha of the southern Great Karoo and Breede ...

01 / 05 / 2006 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria glomerata

Flowers
Common names: Kouga gasteria (Eng.); Kouga-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... 2-3 x 1.5-2.0 mm. Flowering time: spring. The terrain of Gasteria glomerata is rugged, (Fig. 135), inhospitable and ... dryness. Diagnostic features and variation: Superficially Gasteria glomerata resembles G. baylissiana which has rough, ... rosettes and pointed leaves flowering during early summer. Gasteria glomerata is pollinated by sunbirds. Its fruiting ...

03 / 04 / 2006 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria batesiana

Flowers of Gasteria batesiana
Common names: wart-leaf gasteria (Eng.); knoppies-beestong (Afr.); indvololwane (siSwati)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... seed 4-6 mm x 2-3 mm. Flowering time: October to December Gasteria batesiana has the most northerly distribution in the ... the cultivar name 'Mzimduzi'. The most attractive form of Gasteria batesiana originates from Barberton in Mpumalanga, ... yet been re-located. However it lives on in cultivation. Gasteria batesiana var. dolomitica has also fairly recently ...

13 / 03 / 2006 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria acinacifolia

Flowers
Common names: coast ox-tongue (Eng.); kus-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... are 6-8 x 5-6 mm. Flowering time: September to December. Gasteria acinacifolia is one of 21 recognized Gasteria species, all endemic to South Africa and is ... and the fragmented parts simply re-sprout. It resembles Gasteria pulchra which has much smaller leaves and an erect ...

30 / 05 / 2005 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria croucheri

Gasteria croucheri flowers
Common names: forest gasteria, forest ox-tongue, Natal gasteria (Eng.); bosaalwee, oukossies, Natal beestong (Afr.); impundu, iqhomololo (isiZulu)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... 2004 Conservation information updated September 2016   Gasteria croucheri is a solitary or cluster-forming plant, up ... mm long. Flowering time is from late spring to summer. Gasteria croucheri has a wide distribution from the Mzimvubu ... but with the occasional cold fronts and ample winter rain. Gasteria croucheri , like all the other gasterias, has ...

21 / 06 / 2004 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria polita

Flowers
Common names: polished gasteria, polished ox tongue
Family: Asphodelaceae

... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden January 2003   Gasteria polita plants are small, solitary, stemless rosettes ... x 7 mm, and the seeds it produces are black, 3-4 x 2-3 mm. Gasteria polita is the only gasteria solely confined to afro-temperate forest habitat and ...

20 / 01 / 2003 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana

Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana
Common names: dwarf ox-tongue, lilliput gasteria (Eng.), klein-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden September 2002 Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana proliferates from the base ... seeds 2-3 mm in diameter, with a wing for wind dispersal. Gasteria bicolor  var.  liliputana  is a rare endemic of ... in winter. Rainfall is variable, even in summer, and this gasteria is able to survive periods of drought. Eastern Cape ...

09 / 09 / 2002 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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