Aloe Species

Plant grows and flowers beautifully here. It has the most beautiful and interesting flower of any aloe in memory.

I consi...Read Moreder it to be fairly rare. It will be re-potted this fall to give it more room to develop the roots needed to support flowering. This plant , like many Madagascar plants loves acid. I use high phosphorus (10--52-10) liquid fertilizer and water it with acidified water (phosphoric acid) at Ph of 5.5.

Bob

This is a really attractive plant that is incredibly common in Madagascar, though I don't see it much in cultivation. The flowers are so...Read Moremewhat like Aloe suzannae or even an Agave like A. vilmoriniana (from afar), but are not night blooming like A. suzannae. In Arizona, we seem to lack a certain climatic condition that would encourage this plant, and other Aloes for that matter, to flower. In 2005, or maybe 2004 as I'm not sure at what point in the cycle the vegetative phase turns to reproductive and what triggers it), but something must have been right, for an inflor. did emerge, but in the end was stunted and rather underdeveloped. The plant hasn't flowered since. I've noticed the Malagasy Aloes in between the dwarfs (albiflora, bellatula, etc.) and the large plants (vaombe, suzannae, etc.) don't do particularly well in Arizona, which is a bit disappointing.