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Gasteria Nigracanus

By Published On: October 7th, 20200.5 min readCategories: Photos, Plants
Last Updated: September 9, 2023

The Gasterias get their botanical name from their flowers, which are shaped like a stomach (“gaster” being Latin for stomach”), but I think it’s their leaves that make them really interesting. The thick, fleshy leaves grow out of the center, so if you look at them from the top they sort of look like they’re sticking their tongues out at you (which is probably why some people call them “cow’s tongue”).

This one is Gasteria nigracanus, which really likes the heat of late summer and shows it by rocking some cool salmon pink, green and yellow leaves.

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I’m just a guy with nearly an acre of dirt, a nice little mid-century ranch house and a near-perfect climate. But in my mind I’m a landscaper survivalist craftsman chef naturalist with a barbeque the size of a VW and my own cable TV show. I like to write about the stuff I build, grow and see here at Sage's Acre.
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