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Need help with some IDs please

9 years ago

Hi, I am new here but have grown succulents for many years. I have some which I have never been able to ID so are wondering if anyone can assist? I will start with 3 of them but there will be others...

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  • 9 years ago

    Last one compare to Haworthia cymbiformis.

  • 9 years ago

    I think the glomerata ID looks good but the others don't tally with pics on the web. The Gasteria has thinner leaves than bicolor and the Haworthia has also thinner leaves than cymbiformis pics. Any other thoughts? They are common species but hard to ID with so many species in each genus to compare to.

  • 9 years ago

    I am not sure about IDs, but growing conditions make plant sometimes look different than 'perfect' specimen.

  • 9 years ago

    I think G lilliputana ID is correct.

    I'd go w/ the other IDs & the variances Rina suggests occur in reality (other than exhibit-perfect pix).

  • 9 years ago

    I would be convinced if you could show me pics of lillputana with similar thin leaves as mine. I cannot find any on Google images though.

    Rina - I have grown this plant outside in full sun so it is not etoliated. This plant has been grown outside and formed a clump over many years and has always looked like this pup. All images I can find on the web show a squat plant with thick leaves.

  • 9 years ago

    The Wikipedia entry for Gasteria bicolor shows a picture of v. lilliputana that looks very much like yours, with the thin leaves.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteria_bicolor

    If you click the picture of the lilliputana in the lower right corner, it links to a bigger picture, and the description says it was taken of a labeled plant at the Volunteer Park Conservatory, in Seattle, Washington.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteria_bicolor#/media/File:Gasterialiliputana.jpg


  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    s g

    I was not suggesting your plant being etiolated at all. Just growing conditions - for example, many keep gasteria in little less than full sunlight (gasterias and haworthias will grow well in less sunlight than most succulents). I can tell you keep them in plenty of sun, and there is nothing wrong that I could say about them.

    Here is a photo of G. lilliputana - doesn't seem to have fat leaves to me. But I could be wrong:

    I have only few gasterias and am not knowledgeable enough to ID. Here is one of them I am not sure about the name of: (I grow most of my succulents in full sun, but gasterias and haws in mostly morning sun):

  • 9 years ago

    S g, I agree your first gasteria doesn't look like G. bicolor var bicolor. But as seen Sue's comment, I still stand by G. bicolor var liliputana.

    I have some new suggestions for your haworthia. Compare to H. venteri or H. pulchella.

  • 9 years ago

    Rina, perhaps a better descriptor would be 'narrow' leaves rather than thin. It is the width of the leaves that seems different to the photos of the suggested species for the Gasteria. It is sometimes very difficult to ID a plant from a photo alone, especially if the species is variable. I sell a few plants on our local equivalent of Ebay so would like to give a species name for some of my plants but I do not want to mislabel any if I am unsure of the ID.

    Thanks for the suggestions. More IDs to come.

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Ah, narrow and thin are different descriptions...You said pictured one is a pup. How big is the original plant? (G. pulchra has narrow leaves, but quite long).

  • 9 years ago

    It is a pup in the sense it is broken from the mother plant but all rosettes were of a similar size as this plant. It also has thin leaves as well as narrow!

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