Species · genus Gasteria · Asphodelaceae
Ox Tongue
Gasteria obliqua (Aiton) Duval
Cultivars of G. obliqua
The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.
No named cultivars catalogued under G. obliqua yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.
Guide
The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.
The classic ox-tongue gasteria: thick, strap-shaped leaves, often speckled, stacked in ranks before spiralling into a rosette. Long grown under its synonym Gasteria bicolor.
Care recipe
The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.
Care notes drawn from cited sources
- Light
- retail care guidance (growswithlove.com Gasteria listings): bright indirect, tolerates lower light
- Water
- dry-succulent 28-day floor — retail care guidance (growswithlove.com): allow soil to dry completely between waterings
Bright, indirect
≈ every 28 days
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This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
Every image credited. Licenses link to their deeds.
No reference gallery yet
A few clear photos — habit, a mature leaf, a flower if it blooms — would give this page its eyes.
Add imagesSources: retail care guidance (growswithlove.com Gasteria listings): bright indirect, tolerates lower light · dry-succulent 28-day floor — retail care guidance (growswithlove.com): allow soil to dry completely between waterings · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteria_obliqua + growswithlove.com listings
Kept true by its growers
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