Aloe Species

Interesting species, but not worth growing outside of a cooled greenhouse in Arizona. It's VERY hardwired to winter rainfall and mild te...Read Moremperatures. Endless hot nights are bad.

Touchy Aloe,mine started off very well. Then, a vandal uprooted it,breaking off most roots. Despite being replanted for almost a full yea...Read Morer,it has slightly shrunken leaves. Not an Aloe to recover from trauma well,unlike most Aloe sp.
Also said to be a sand growing species that resents clay and slow drainage.

This plant grows well in full sun in Southern California. It is easily rooted in potting soil with warmth.

This is a clumping, rambling, creeping aloe with spotted leaves (both sides) and almost non-existent teeth along the leaf margins. Gets ...Read Morea dark purply-brown color in winter/sun. With age, plants begin to sucker forming densely packed mounds of leaves (I have not seen this happen, but photos of plants in the wild show this). Very slow growing aloe- probably takes decades to form these dense colonies.

Seedlings and juveniles look very different from mature plants, basically having no rosettes to speak of- just indifidual thick, short, triangular, folded leaves that come off in a distichous pattern as this plant grows and rambles over the landscape. It takes nearly a decade for the plant to age to the point of forming true rosettes, at which time it looks like a more normal looking aloe. I see some have had luck with this plant forming rosettes in a short time, but the plants I have growing my yard in inland southern Califonia have been growing slowly for nearly 10 years and have yet to form a rosette pattern of leaves... this one is super super slow for me.

Flowers are branched and star-shaped about 1/2 the year in this species. South African native somewhat threatened in the wild.