Aloidendron Species, Maiden's Quiver Tree

Per Jan Emming owner of the Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in ...Read Morethe Arizona desert with a nursery:

Aloe ramosissima is found only in the Richtersveld region of the Namibian/South African borderlands. It is a shrubby-looking tree aloe, usually under 8 feet tall, but with hundreds of tightly spaced branches forming a mound. The foreground plant is unusually well-developed, and the one on the ridgeline in the background is more typical in appearance.

I can only describe the color as near metallic gold,in a pot in summer and kept dry. VERY slow growing potted..and makes a nice Bonsai tr...Read Moreee Aloe. Seems fine with any temp about 30f here. I haven't seen any frost damage-and that's with potted plants. Of the two I have one will go in the ground, the other a Bonsai pot.

This Aloe loves Arizona so long as it's kept warm! The big evil freeze of January 2007 killed every plant I was aware of in the Phoenix ...Read Morearea except for one near ASU. It's a tragedy. Giant old plants are now just skeletons.

Taxonomists are now starting to reclassify this plant as a form of Aloe dichotoma.

I have rooted cuttings from this plant ...Read Moreand also A. dichotoma. The problem is they don't start to form roots until the start of the active growth season, which in SoCal begins in September.

Like A. dichotoma, takes quite awhile before it blooms.

-Ron-