Haworthia emelyaevar.major(G.G.Sm . ) M.B.Bayer
Haworthia magnificavar.major , Haworthia maraisiivar.major , Haworthia multifoliavar.major , Haworthia schuldtianavar.major , Haworthia wimii
Family : AsphodelaceaeSubfamily : AsphodeloideaeTribe : AloeaeGenus : Haworthia
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Haworthia emelyaevar.majoris aboriginal toSouth Africa . It occurs on the Karroo side of Garcia Pass among rocks and in rock crevices on a northern facet .
Haworthia emelyaevar.majoris a small succulent that form a stemless , normally solitary rosette of thick heavy leaves with numerous concolorous tubercles tipped with white-hot tooth . The rosette can attain up to 3.4 column inch ( 8.5 cm ) in diameter . The leaves are dreary green and semitransparent with 3 to 7 light-green - white pipeline . They are obovate , recurve , somewhat convex at the upper control surface , and can grow up to 1.6 inch ( 4 cm ) prospicient and up to 0.6 column inch ( 1.5 cm ) astray . The keels and margins are with slender , whitish teeth .
The flowers are blanched suffused green , with brownish - dark-green lines , and appear spirally arrange in a raceme up to 3.4 inch ( 8.5 centimetre ) long from spring to fall . The peduncle is simple , stout , and can get up to 12 column inch ( 30 cm ) long , including the raceme .
USDA hardiness zones10a to 11b : from 30 ° F ( −1.1 ° C ) to 50 ° F ( +10 ° C ) .
These succulents are not deliberate difficulthouseplantsto rise . If you could keep a pot ofAloealive on a windowsill , chances are you could do the same with a dish ofHaworthia . As with all succulents , the most dangerous situation istoo much water . They should never be permit to sit in pee under any lot . At the same time , these little decorative plants can be grown in interesting containers such as teacups and even miniature infant shoe . If you ’re given aHaworthiain such a container , assure the container has adequate drainage .
Haworthias are lowly , unremarkably between 3 and 5 in ( 7.5 cm and 12.5 cm ) in height , and relatively slow - grow . Therefore , they are often mature in small bunch in broad , shallow dish . Over metre , bunch will naturally enlarge as the female parent plant institutionalize off minor plantlet . When the bunch has outgrow its container , repot into a new wide and shallow container with freshpotting soilin the spring or other summertime . This is also the time to take stolon for extension .
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