San Leandro, CA (Zone 9b) | February 2015 | positive
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.
Spring Valley, CA (Zone 10a) | November 2004 | positive
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.
Nice, but slow growing tree aloe known for its many branches and smooth, white stems. Other than this low branching habit and usually sm...Read Morealler leaf size, it is virtually identical to Aloe dichotoma, and as RWhiz mentions below, some consider a subspecies of A dichotoma. Flowers are identical. Eventually forms large mounds that make wonderful landscape specimens.This is sometimes a tricky grower and prone to rot. Also one of the hardest to grow from cuttings, though I have seen it done (just no luck myself).
JUst a note: Jan 07 freeze in Los Angeles of 27F for 5 hours killed a 1' tall seedling I had.
Per Jan Emming owner of the Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in ...Read More
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 More
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 More
Taxonomists are now starting to reclassify this plant as a form of Aloe dichotoma.
I have rooted cuttings from this plant ...Read More
Nice, but slow growing tree aloe known for its many branches and smooth, white stems. Other than this low branching habit and usually sm...Read More