Meaning of AFF

[rodsmith]

I've just bought a rather attractive gasteria from a garden centre and unusually it has a name tag - Gasteriea aff. bicolor. It looks unlike bicolor and I guess it is a hybrid. Can someone tell me what AFF means in this context please? It will need repotting!

[el48tel]

Rod does ..........
aff., aff., or affin.) is taxonomic terminology in zoology and botany. In open nomenclature it indicates that available material or evidence suggests that the proposed species is related to, has an affinity to, but is not identical to, the species with the binomial name that follows.

fit the bill?

[Diane]

Looks very like the cultivar/hybrid 'Little Warty'.

[rodsmith]

Rod does ..........
aff., aff., or affin.) is taxonomic terminology in zoology and botany. In open nomenclature it indicates that available material or evidence suggests that the proposed species is related to, has an affinity to, but is not identical to, the species with the binomial name that follows.

fit the bill?

Thanks el48tel. Very useful info.

Looks very like the cultivar/hybrid 'Little Warty'.

Thanks Diane. Looks like you've nailed it.

[Tony R]

'Little Warty' indeed
which is a cross between G. batesiana and another hybrid 'Old Man Silver'.
When 'Little Warty' flowers you will see that it has the splendid "longiflorae" flowers so typical of G. batesiana.

[rodsmith]

Thanks Tony. I look forward to it flowering in due course.

[Stuart]

Nice plant and very easy to grow, offsets readily and grown by the thousands in Holland which is probably where this one came from, slow growing? - probably not. If it was slow growing and didn't have so many offsets it would probably join the list of sought-after collectable Gasterias.

Stuart

[rodsmith]

Nice plant and very easy to grow, offsets readily and grown by the thousands in Holland which is probably where this one came from, slow growing? - probably not. If it was slow growing and didn't have so many offsets it would probably join the list of sought-after collectable Gasterias.

Stuart

I did wonder about the "slow growing" description in view of the plant's size and number of offsets. I have a G. bicolor that is smaller than this at over 8 years old.