Aloe (Aloe lineata var. muirii)

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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) Jan 15, 2008

Aloe
Aloe lineata var. muirii

showing the bright red spines, not only along the leaf margins, but on the lower sides of the leaves

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thistlesifter Vista, CA Sep 16, 2008

This looks like a plant in one of my upper Aloe beds although at present the red surface teeth are more pronounced

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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) Sep 17, 2008

It is.. .one of my favorite plants in your collection... never seen another like it.

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thistlesifter Vista, CA Sep 17, 2008

PB, you would naturally select an Aloe as one of your favorites, since I don't grow Palms and I didn't show you my few prize Cycads. Aloes are about number 4 on our list of favorite genera.

So if one was purchasing one of these, given a choice would they buy the horned leaf surface...? My bet is they would. Given a choice why would one pick a typical non-exaggerated form.

Often, though even people with many plants don't stop to consider the vast range in nature's speciazation. This causes a collector to try to form-fit a species to what their own narrow anecdotal background. Reference description and exploration of plants in habitat, change forever the need for one to force a plant into a 'fit-form' mold based only on what has been seen by them.

When we pollinate we will find another with horned leaf surface flowering, cross-pollinate and pretty soon 3 generations later we have a new cultivar. I was hoping your image was your own plant, then we could swap pollen. Then I noticed my custom shoe (one of a kind) then my plant mix.

Could probably look all over the place in situ and not find them with that kind of horn density.. But the individual from whom this plant came got seed from in situ material.

This is high up on my list of Aloes to use in certain landscape situations. Its not in a good landscape spot now.

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thistlesifter Vista, CA Oct 26, 2008

Actually,
I checked this and 4 others, (1 other that I've imaged here and 3 others that are seedlings) all of these from 3 different sources have the same habit leaf-surface teeth. These will be bred to develop the characteristic.

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