Bracky-whatsit
Wow, lots of posts today... But this is (I think) post-worthy so I added it.
My bracky-whatsit plant is blooming. I didn't even know they bloomed!
It's really a Gasteria brachyphylla (but on the label looks like "brackyphilla") and I can never remember anything but the "bracky" bit. So that's what I call it. (Though Google comes up with nothing when searching for that. Instead, it has a Gasteria bateseana which looks just like it, so I guess the lady we got it from had the wrong name. So it's a batesy-whatsit? But Wikipedia does list the brachyphylla, so I guess I'm good. I mean, Wikipedia's never wrong, right?)
Mom and I got a pot of this at a home & garden show years ago and split it. It's pretty easy to take care of, though I did almost kill it once by overwatering. But now I must be doing something right because it put out a stalk with these neat little blooms on it.
Weird!
My bracky-whatsit plant is blooming. I didn't even know they bloomed!
It's really a Gasteria brachyphylla (but on the label looks like "brackyphilla") and I can never remember anything but the "bracky" bit. So that's what I call it. (Though Google comes up with nothing when searching for that. Instead, it has a Gasteria bateseana which looks just like it, so I guess the lady we got it from had the wrong name. So it's a batesy-whatsit? But Wikipedia does list the brachyphylla, so I guess I'm good. I mean, Wikipedia's never wrong, right?)
Mom and I got a pot of this at a home & garden show years ago and split it. It's pretty easy to take care of, though I did almost kill it once by overwatering. But now I must be doing something right because it put out a stalk with these neat little blooms on it.
The full bracky-whatsit
Close-up of bloom
Weird!
Labels: Green-Thumbness
posted by Amanda at
8:34 PM
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2 Comments:
OMG, they do look like itty bitty stomachs, that is so funny. You are probably one of the few people I know that would get that plant on purpose, my sweet DIL. Love, MIL
Well, I didn't know it had stomach-like blooms when I bought it. Though, admittedly, that would have been an additional selling point for me had I know.
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