12 Gasteria Succulent Types with Names and Pictures

Gasteria baylissiana is a dwarf succulent plant whose strap-shaped leaves are swollen, convex, rough, leathery and densely covered in tiny, white, truncate tubercles.

The leaves are arranged in two rows forming a fan-like shape which become elongated in shade while in sunnier conditions they remain short and compact.

Gasteria baylissiana is an easy care plant which thrives in bright light with some direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, rich, well-drained soil.

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Gasteria disticha is a dwarf succulent plant whose strap-shaped leaves are arranged in two rows forming a fan-like shape. The leaves are green and have white spots arranged in irregular transverse bands.

The Gasteria disticha plant often has leaves which undulate slightly, have wavy margins and a rough, mat surface.

Gasteria disticha thrives in bright light with some direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, rich, well-drained soil.

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Gasteria rawlinsonii is an unusual Gasteria plant in that it grows long leafy stems which often hang downwards and the leaves are dark-green and edged with tiny black teeth, unlike in other Gasteria plants.

Gasteria rawlinsonii is native to Eastern Cape, South Africa where it is found growing hanging on cliff faces in shady ravines in well-drained sandstone soils.

Gasteria rawlinsonii thrives in bright light with some direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, fertile, well-drained soil.

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Gasteria brachyphylla is a small succulent plant whose strap-shaped leaves, arranged in two rows forming a fan-like shape are very shiny and smooth. The leaves are green and have white spots arranged in irregular transverse bands.

The name "Brachyphylla" means "wide and short leaves" which is in reference its wide and short leaves. The plant is a profuse bloomer and the flowers are pink.

Gasteria brachyphylla thrives in bright light with some direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, rich, well-drained soil.

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Gasteria pillansii is a small succulent plant whose green, strap-shaped leaves, arranged in two rows forming a fan-like shape, are rough with tiny tubercles.

Gasteria pillansii is native to the arid winter-rainfall regions in the far west of South Africa and Namibia where it is found growing under rocks or bushes that provide it with shelter from the sun.

Gasteria pillansii thrives in bright light with some direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, fertile, well-drained soil coupled with monthly feeding during the growing season.

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Gasteria bicolor also called Gasteria obliqua bear multiple stems that are covered with masses of fleshy mottled leaves and are occasionally keeled and have a sharp pointed at the tip.

Gasteria bicolor is native to a wide area of the Eastern Cape where it is found growing on rocky slopes and outcrops in the thicket vegetation of the region.

It is slow growing plant which prefers bright light, well-drained, rich, moderately moist soil and average to above average warmth. It cannot tolerate frost, therefore, protect it from cold drafts.

Gasteria carinata commonly called Bredasdorp Gasteria or Keeled Gasteria bears dark-green, triangular leaves spotted with white tubercles arranged in transverse bands which have sharp points at the tips and channeled on their upper surface.

The flowers are white to light pink with central green stripes and appear on spreading and slightly curved stalks in winter and spring.

Gasteria carinata is native to Western Cape in South Africa where it occurs in dry river valleys, on shale banks and outcrops in the shade of xerophytic shrubs.

Gasteria maculata bears thick, fleshy leaves which are rounded below, dark green in color with white specks, arranged in two ranks and are raised with rough edges.

The flowers in Gasteria maculata are pink and orange, bell-shaped and are borne on a 12 in. long stem.

Gasteria maculata is a slow-growing, low-maintenance plant which grows best in shade to bright indirect light away from direct sunlight, average warmth and moderately moist, fertile, loose, well-drained soil.

Gasteria glauca also called Kouga Gasteria bears thick, fleshy, smooth, shiny, bluish ("glaucous") leaves which are nearly cylindrical with a pointy tip.

The leaves start off in two opposite rows (distichous) but later become a dense rosette with the inner leaves growing erect while the outer ones are spreading.

Gasteria glauca is an easy to grow Gasteria which is native to the cliff faces overlooking the Kouga River of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

Gasteria nitida also called Thurst Gasteria is a stemless, succulent plant with fat, shiny, spotted, triangular leaves which eventually grow in a rosette.

Gasteria nitida is native to the Eastern Cape grasslands of South Africa. The species name, 'nitida' is Latin for 'shiny', in reference to the shiny leaf surface.

Unlike in other Gasterias, the flowers are a darker reddish pink, with yellow throats. The flowers appear in summer on a branched inflorescence.

Gasteria armstrongii has rough, tuberculate, recurved, purely distichous leaves and a solitary unbranched inflorescence and is thought to be a subspecies of Gasteria nitida.

Gasteria armstrongii which remains in its juvenile phase is native to Eastern Cape Province, South Africa where it is found growing along the Gamtoos river, a flat to hilly terrain rich in pebbles, under full sun or partially covered by small shrubs.

Gasteria armstrongii is the most threatened of all the Gasteria species, as its habitat is rapidly being developed.

Gasteria verrucosa also called Gasteria carinata var. verrucosa bears upright, dull green leaves patterned with raised white spots, arranged in two opposite vertical rows and is very variable in size and leaf shape.

Gasteria verrucosa is found growing on rocky outcrops and flat areas in limestone fynbos and outliers of subtropical thicket east of Bredasdorp in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

The flowers are orange-pink, appear in early spring and are borne on long inflorescences upto 3 ft long.

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