Species · genus Gasteria · Asphodelaceae

Keeled Oxtongue

Gasteria carinata (Mill.) Duval

Growth habit

succulent perennial

Native range

Cape Provinces

Reference · G. carinata

Cultivars of G. carinata

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under G. carinata yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Gasteria carinata is a leaf-succulent perennial from the Cape Provinces of South Africa, where it stores water in thick, fleshy leaves and endures long dry spells. Grow it in gritty, fast-draining mix and give it bright indirect light, easing it into any direct sun to avoid scorch. Water deeply only once the soil has dried out completely through the pot, and err toward keeping it dry, since standing moisture rots the roots and base.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–30 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Leaf cuttings or offsets

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in summer

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Arching sprays of pink-red tubular flowers

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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