Nice!
Certainly worth taking a few offsets off the edges of several of them to root down, to maintain the clone, just in case!

Gasteria batesiana Barberton Form

Mike P wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:47 am I also have that book.

Me too!
I also have their earlier book from 1959, which is a very good read about their journeys in C&S habitats in Afica and the Americas, as well as much information on propagation and genera.

Herts Mike wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:43 am Lay down horizontally? Isn’t it easier if you’re standing vertically?

Lovely plant!
Try not to handle the plant at all!
Lay down horizontally if you want to take the plant out of the pot. Then just handle via the rootball if you can.
Good luck!

Yes, Ernie. Gasteria carinata var. verrucosa is a discrete sp/var - who knows, it might even become G. verrucosa again, eventually. G. thunbergii was lumped into it once but EvJ separated it again as thunbergii has two quite unique characteristics.1. the leaves incurve and can almost completely encl...

Yes, indeed. Nice plant, Ernie, beautifully displayed.
Re. the 'Gasteria book', page 85, second item down, thunbergii --> carinata var. verrucosa. EvJ elevated it back to species status in 2007.

Here are some in the former collection of the late Cok Grootscholten:

I was equally excited that one of my Oreocereus celsianus has started to produce an offset at the bottom of the body.
For completeness, I've also added the top of the plant, some 42 inches higher up.

Looks very smart, MIke, when you 'blow it up'.
Lots of little tubercles bursting through there.