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Gasteria bicolor

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Name

Identification
Gasteria bicolor Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gasteria bicolor

Flora

Entry for GASTERIA bicolor Haw. [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
GASTERIA bicolor Haw. [family ALOACEAE], in Phil. Mag. 1826, 275;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 188.
Aloe bicolor Roem. et Schultes [family ALOACEAE], Syst. Veg. vii. 682; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxix. fig. 5; Kunth, Enum. iv. 537.
Information
leafy stem 4–5 in. long; leaves 12–20, distichous, lorate, 8–9 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad at the middle, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, very rigid, very thick, a slightly glaucous green, slightly convex on the face in the lower half, more so on the back, with no spots except a few on the back towards the base, edges of the clasping base bright red; peduncle simple, above a foot long; raceme lax, above a foot long; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate; perianth 5/8 in. long, much curved, ball oblong, 1/6 in. diam. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about 1825. A very distinct species.

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