Succulent Gasteria Little Warty

Little Warty (Gasteria ‘Little Warty’), also known as Ox Tongue, is native to the arid regions of South Africa—lands of hard light and shifting shadow, where rain is rare and the wind has no barrier. The soil is coarse and thin, built of grit and dust. In such a place, survival is a discipline, not an accident.

From this sparing earth rises Gasteria ‘Little Warty’, a compact succulent with thick, tongue-shaped leaves marked by pale tubercles—small raised speckles that catch the light like grains of sand. The foliage is dark green and slightly translucent at the margins, arranged in tight rosettes that expand slowly over time. Its texture tells its story: every contour designed to retain water, to shield from sun, to endure.

When rainfall comes, it is brief and heavy. The plant drinks deeply, storing each drop within its fleshy leaves, then waits through weeks of heat and silence. In cultivation, Gasteria ‘Little Warty’ thrives under bright, indirect light, dry air, and quick-draining soil. It asks little but offers permanence—a living sculpture of patience and design.

Its form is geometric and unhurried, its beauty quiet and deliberate. Like the desert that shaped it, Little Warty speaks in understatement—resourceful, enduring, and perfectly at home in the balance between scarcity and grace.