Please make sure JavaScript is enabled.
 
Thicket Ox-Tongue in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Gasteria excelsa

 

Thicket Ox-Tongue

Gasterias are recognisable from their thick, hard, succulent "tongue-shaped" leaves. Gasteria are grown in well-drained, sandy soils in light shade. They can be propagated by off-sets and cuttings. They are also commonly propagated by seed. Germination usually occurs within 8 days but may take as long as one month, depending on the species. Gasteria excelsa is a medium-sized aloe-like plant bearing triangular, spreading, ascending, dark-mottled green leaves and a dense panicle of pinkish flowers during summer.

Contributed by @disneyfacts

 
plant Features
  • Thicket Ox-Tongue likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Thicket Ox-Tongue likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Thicket Ox-Tongue is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Thicket Ox-Tongue likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Thicket Ox-Tongue

Latin name

Gasteria excelsa

type

Succulent

family

Asphodelaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Thicket Ox-Tongue likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Frost

    Thicket Ox-Tongue is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Soil

    Thicket Ox-Tongue likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Thicket Ox-Tongue likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

  •  
    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Thicket Ox-Tongue is 0.75meters x 0.60meters 0.75 M 0.60 M

Gasteria excelsa

Gasterias are recognisable from their thick, hard, succulent "tongue-shaped" leaves. Gasteria are grown in well-drained, sandy soils in light shade. They can be propagated by off-sets and cuttings. They are also commonly propagated by seed. Germination usually occurs within 8 days but may take as long as one month, depending on the species. Gasteria excelsa is a medium-sized aloe-like plant bearing triangular, spreading, ascending, dark-mottled green leaves and a dense panicle of pinkish flowers during summer.


Propagation

From Early Spring TO Late Winter

To propagate by leaf cuttings, remove a leaf and let it lie for about one month (e.g. in a cool window sill), giving the wound time to heal. Then lay the leaf on its side with the basal part buried in the soil. This leaf should root within a month or two, and small plants will form at the leaf base. Young plants can be harvested the following season. They can also grown from seed. Seed should be sown during summer in sandy well drained soil and preferably protected from full sun. The seedlings are slow growing and can be planted out in small containers when they are large enough to handle. The soil should preferably be enriched with compost. They react very well to a liquid organic fertilizer.

 

Planting young plants

From Early Spring TO Late Summer

Gasteria need light shade to shade, but will take full sun part of the day. (with some sun exposure the leaf develops a nice reddish tint and remain compact) They are tolerant of a wide range of soils and habitats, but prefer a very porous potting mix to increase drainage.

 
Subscribe to GardenTags Premium to get personalised planting tasks and more for your entire plant collection
 
Gardeners who are growing this plant