Gasteria batesiana

42.1470871, -87.79005432

42.14709473, -87.79003906

42.14710617, -87.79030609

42.1471138, -87.79030609

Knoppies-beestong

Nectar-rich, tubular soft pink flowers transition to soft green at the mouths of ox's tongue (Gasteria batesiana), a favorite of sunbirdsโ€”the African equivalent of hummingbirds. The plant's deep green, triangular lanceolate leaves are ornamented with white spots in transverse bands. This succulent can tolerate some shade and is found in nature growing on north and east cliff faces. Potting medium has to be very well drained.

This species was not described until the middle of the twentieth century. The specific epithet (species name) of ox's tongue honors a Mr. Bates, who was a London trolley driver and noted collector of South African succulents.

๊ฐ€์Šคํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•„. ์ฆ™์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ , โ€˜์†Œ์˜ ํ˜€โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณ„์นญ์œผ๋กœ ํ”ํžˆ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠœ๋ธŒํ˜•์˜ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ํ•‘ํฌ์ƒ‰ ๊ฝƒ์—์„œ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธํ•œ ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ๋ฒŒ์ƒˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ํƒœ์–‘์ƒˆ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์•„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฑํ•ฉ๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌํ•ด์‚ด์ดํ’€๋กœ ์žŽ์€ ์–ด๊ธ‹๋‚˜๊ณ  ํ˜€ ๋ชจ์–‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง™์€ ๋…น์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ํฐ ์ ์ด๋‚˜ ํฐ๋ฌด๋Šฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ”ผ๋Š” ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‘๋‹ฌ์—์„œ๋„ ์ž˜ ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด๊ณ , ์ž์—ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ์ชฝ์ด๋‚˜ ๋™์ชฝ ์ ˆ๋ฒฝ์—์„œ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”๋ถ„์€ ๋ฌผ์ด ์ž˜ ๋น ์ง€๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

20์„ธ๊ธฐ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ด ํ’ˆ์ข…์ด ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, โ€˜์†Œ์˜ ํ˜€โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋ช…์€ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ํŠธ๋กค๋ฆฌ ๋“œ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์ด์ž ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๋‹ค์œก์‹๋ฌผ ์ฑ„์ง‘๊ฐ€์ธ ๋ฏธ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ฒ ์ด์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Soil:
Dry
Plant Shape:
Mounded
Exposure:
Full Sun
Partial Shade
Bloom Time:
January - February
March - April
November - December
Bloom Color:
Pink
Green
Landscape Use:
Bedding or Border
Wildlife Interest:
Attracts Birds
Plant Type:
Perennial
Hardiness Zone:
9 - 11