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Gasteria pulchra
Gasteria pulchra is a small succulent from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, grown for its slender, dark green, white-spotted leaves. Give it bright light, let the soil dry between waterings, and keep it out of hard frost.
Gasteria pulchra is a succulent plant restricted to a locality in the Albany thickets vegetation of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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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.
