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ddelight Mississauga, Canada May 17, 2008

This was given to me by me grandmother about 6 months ago. When I got the plant it consisted of one plant, within a few days it sprouted a baby, and now, I have four all together. The mother plant (which she still has) was purchased over 25yrs ago at a garage sale. For years it did nothing for her until she recently moved it and it started growing really well (not as quick as mine has though).

Anyways, this is the third time since I have had it that flowers have come. They are especially beautiful and my favorite part. The plant gets full sun for about 5 hours and then a consistant low light for the rest of the day (naturally). I have been treating like a cactus and only watering it when the soil is dry. I water from the bottom and about once a month from the top....this seems to be working.

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cruz4him Toronto, ON(Zone 6a) May 18, 2008

I believe it's an aloe vera. Check out this link for a pic

http://dailyphoto.org/p/aloe-vera-bloom

The plant files on this site have pics but none of the plant blooming.

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ddelight Mississauga, Canada May 18, 2008

Here is an upclose pic of the flower. I wondered if it was an aloe but the leaves grow in a row so to speak not in a circular pattern. It would be wonderful if it was an aloe, I have never had luck with them growing anymore than just new leaves!

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plantladylin (Zone 1) May 18, 2008

Looks like Aloe vera to me also: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1367/... very nice plant too you have there. When that pot gets crowded, you can take those "pups" and pot them up by themselves too. When planted in the ground here in Florida they spread like crazy. About ten years ago I threw away hundreds of them that were taking over an area of the yard! Now I only grow them in containers!

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ddelight Mississauga, Canada May 18, 2008

Well, it looks like I do have an Aloe here! So, at the risk of sounding ignorant, do all aloes have the same healing properties, or just the typical ones you see in stores? I ask this because I have been to several garden centres and can not for the life of me find this same plant.

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plantladylin (Zone 1) May 18, 2008

I know Aloe vera has healing properties ... whenever I've burned myself cooking I've gone out and cut a piece off, slit it down the leaf and rubbed the juice on the burn ... works really great. I've used it on sunburn also and when my niece was a little girl I used it on her sunburn and had a smiling child again! She thought it was pretty cool that you could rub the juice of a plant from Aunt Linda's yard on a sunburn to make it stop stinging!

I don't really know about "other" aloes. Here's a link to the 490! of them in Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=aloe&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search

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