RElatively rare Aloe from Northeast Africa (Ethiopia and nearby- type locality Eritrea). In nature, this is a rambling solitary to somet...Read Moreimes branching, decumbent to pendulous species with relatively thick stems up to 3' long, often covered with persistent dead leaves. Leaves in hot, dry, natural conditions grey-green with purple tinge with red borders and small, widely spaced teeth and strongly recurved. However, in cultivation, given some shade, these plants can have leaves of a brilliant lime green to deep green to blue-green leaves with fine irregular speckling and distinctive, very ornamental red leaf margins. This aloe has been a pretty fast grower in my yard growing from a small seedling to a plant with a rosette diameter or nearly 3' in under 3 years... and very non-demanding. This is an aloe, it turns out, that needs some room to grow. It looks like it will be an excellent landscape aloe for Southern California, particular on hillsides facing south or southwest.
Flowers are reminiscent of Aloe rubroviolacea- large columnar racemes of tightly packed yellowy to pinkish flowers. The entire inflorescence, other than the color, is nearly identical to those of Aloe rubroviolacea.
RElatively rare Aloe from Northeast Africa (Ethiopia and nearby- type locality Eritrea). In nature, this is a rambling solitary to somet...Read More