Gasteria carinata var. verrucosa

Ox Tongue Aloe is a peculiar looking plant with two-ranked, dull-green, leaves densely roughened with small, pearly-white excrescences and with grooved upper surfaces.It is a small to medium-sized stemless fleshy plant. It offsets freely from the base and soon forms a dense cluster with dull green speckled leaves. Dimension of the clumps are 3-18 cm tall and 15-80 cm wide. Leaves arise in a rosette, with 4-8 (or more) leaves, erect or spreading. Leaves are up to15 cm long, 1-5 cm wide at the base, fleshy, triangular-lanceshaped, sometimes tongue-shaped, leaf tip blunt or pointed. Flowers are borne in upright racemes, 15-90 cm long, unbranched or occasionally with a pair of side branches. Flowers are 2.5-4 cm long, orange-pink and tubular like the usual of this genus, flower-stalk 7-15 mm long, flowers 1.6-2.7 cm long, gasteriform part orange-pink swollen at the base by more than half of the flower length, narrowly ellipsoid to rarely spherical-ellipsoid, above constricted into a tube 3-5 mm in diameter. Ox Tongue Aloe is native to Southern Africa, cultivated as a succulent plant worldwide.