The white dot pattern on Gasteria is often compared to a starry sky, but when countless star-like spots flow apart in two streams across the gleaming white leaves, it’s almost like looking at the "Milky Way." This eye-catching look is actually quite rare among Gasteria. For example, the variety name verrucosa comes from Latin for "covered in warts," and while the type species G. carinata often grows with a spiral leaf arrangement, it also tends to form two opposite rows. In the same carinata family, there's also G. carinata var.thunbergii and the " G. carinata var.retusa ," which has leaf tips that appear clipped and flattened.

The variety verrucosa was first described by Miller in 1768 as Aloe verrucosa, but in 1809 became part of the separate Gasteria genus, and was treated as the species Gasteria verrucosa for nearly 180 years. It was reclassified as a variety of the type species in 1992. In the wild, it lives tucked away in the shade of low shrubs among dry, rocky areas at relatively low elevations in the southern part of Western Cape, South Africa. [The area gets rainfall in both summer and winter (though summers are said to be drier)](https://pza.sanbi.org/gasteria-carinata#:~:text=Rainfall,dryness). Blooms appear from winter to spring.

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