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Gasteria armstrongii -가스테리아 암스트롱이

유통명와우(臥牛)Gasteria armstrongii 는 국표에 없다.

Gasteria armstrongii Schönland

Gasteria armstrongii (Gasteria nitida var. armstrongii) is a dwarf succulent plant native to South Africa, in the genus Gasteria.

This slow-growing species is closely related to the similar, but much larger, Gasteria nitida species of the South African grasslands, and their bright reddish-pink flowers are very similar. (In some classification schemes, it is even classed as a variety within this species, and in cultivation G. armstrongii can resemble juvenile plants of G. nitida.)

Gasteria armstrongii can be distinguished by its very dark, retuse, distichous, roughly tuberculate leaves. Its inflorescences are also solitary. (G.nitida is much larger, with smooth leaves that grow in a rosette, not distichous. Its inflorescences are branched.)

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

속명인 Gasteria는 gaster란 말이 원형인데 부풀어 오른 배(복부)란 뜻으로

2018.03.03