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Gasteria brachyphylla

Plant
Common names: Klein Karoo ox-tongue (Eng.); Klein Karoo-beestong, boesmanrys (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... are held in an erect position and seeds are released by strong gusts of wind. The seeds are wind-dispersed. The ... in 1731 (Aiton 1789). Prince Salm Dyck named named it Aloe brachyphylla in 1840, which was transferred to Gasteria ...

27/08/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria carinata

Plant
Common names: Keeled ox-tongue, Bredasdorp gasteria (Eng.); Bredasdorp-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... was first described by Oldenland under the phrase name "Aloe africana flore rubro folio triangulari et verrucoso ab ...

09/04/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria disticha

Plant
Common names: Great Karoo ox-tongue (Eng.); grootkaroo-beestong, boesmanrys (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... are held in an erect position and seeds are released by strong gusts of wind and are wind-dispersed. Like many other ... Boek", or local herbarium, under the long phrase name Aloe africana flore rubro folia maculis ab utraque parte ... name system was finally abolished. He then named the plant Aloe disticha. However, the succulent student Adrian Haworth ...

30/07/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria doreeniae

Plant
Common names: Doreen's gasteria (Eng); Swartwaterspoort-beestong (Afr)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... (E. Cape). It was first described in the succulent journal Aloe in 2004. Gasteria doreeniae Van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk ...

04/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria ellaphieae

Plant
Common names: Ellaphie's gasteria
Family: Asphodelaceae

... unexpectedly by the author in 1989 whilst searching for Aloe pictifolia plants, which are also endemic to the area. ...

18/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria polita

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

... as they are large and firm enough to handle. Gasterias are aloe-like plants, in fact they belong in the same family. ...

20/01/2003 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria pulchra

Plant
Common names: none recorded
Family: Asphodelaceae

... was named by William Aiton in 1789 as a variety of his Aloe maculata in Hortus Kewensis. Adrian Haworth, the British ...

26/03/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria rawlinsonii

Plant
Common names: Baviaanskloof cliff gasteria (Eng.); kransbeestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... the Eastern Cape. The genus Gasteria is closely related to Aloe but differs in having pendulous flowers with a ...

23/11/2009 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Tulista pumila

Plant
Common names: miniature aloe, pearl plant (Eng.); vratjiesaalwyn, kleinaalwyn, seepaalwyn (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

miniature aloe, pearl plant (Eng.); vratjiesaalwyn, kleinaalwyn, ... seed should germinate with 21 days. Once the seedlings are strong enough, after about one year, transplant into containers. Initially keep strong sunlight off the young plants. Once the plants have ...

28/07/2003 | | Karoo Desert NBG

Orbea lutea

Plant
Common names: yellow carrion flower (Eng.); geelaasblom, ghaap, gwaap, aasblom, kopseerblom, slang-gwaap (Afr.).
Family: Apocynaceae

... with the process of pollination. Open flowers have a strong unpleasant odour reminiscent of rotting fish. This ... succulents including Adenium , Pachypodium and species of Aloe. The genus Orbea consists of about 56 species, mainly ...

11/01/2010 | | National Herbarium Pretoria

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