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Gasteria nitida
Also called Rice Plant, Shiny Oxtongue
Gasteria nitida, the Bathurst gasteria, is a South African succulent from the Eastern Cape grasslands, grown for its glossy, tongue-shaped leaves. It does best in very well-drained, gritty, slightly acidic soil and needs sun or semi-shade with infrequent watering.
Gasteria nitida, the Bathurst gasteria, is a succulent plant, native to the Eastern Cape grasslands of South Africa.
This plant is popular as an ornamental in cultivation. It thrives in full sun, as well as semi-shade. It is adaptable but prefers very well-drained, slightly acidic, poor, quartz-sandstone sands.
This species occurs over an extensive coastal range of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, from Uniondale in the west, as far as the Fish River in the east.
Coast Oxtongue · Gasteria barbae · Bushveld Oxtongue · Suurberg Oxtongue · Gasteria bicolor · Klein Karoo Gasteria · Gasteria camillae · Keeled Oxtongue · Natal Oxtongue · Robertson Oxtongue · Doreen’s Oxtongue · Ellaphie’s Oxtongue
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gasteria nitida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
