Somalian native with rough (sort of like shark skin), toothless leaves of a dull, pale olive-green. Plants are usually clustering to for...Read Morem small groups and leaves upright and often curved laterally all in one direction or another. Lives in areas of sparse vegetation and very low rainfall, but at altitudes up to 5000'. Flowers can be yellow, orangish or even scarlet in summer. I have a dinky seedling I got mail order summer 2006 so no personal experience with it yet. Seedlings are lightly spotted and a limier green than adult plants.
Now that I have grown (that's a euphemism for kept alive) these plants for over 2 years I have concluded that, at least in my zone9b southern California, this is one of the slowest growing aloes there are. My seedlings are still dinky and at the rate they are growing it will take 10 years or more to get to flowering size.
Somalian native with rough (sort of like shark skin), toothless leaves of a dull, pale olive-green. Plants are usually clustering to for...Read More
Not much experience with the plant, as it is new in my collection.