Aloe and Friends
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Aristaloe aristata - Synonym: Aloe aristata. One of the smaller Aloes, clumping,
stemless, sawtoothed succulent leaves with soft bristly tips. Needs well
draining soil. Can be cold hardy down to 20F for a short time. Habitat:
SouthAfrica & Lesotho. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3,
#4 with pups @ $10.00 each
Aloe brevifolia striata variegation
- Belonging
to the Aloe perfoliata/mitriformis group. These has nice creamy stripped leaves.This
is one of the best pot aloes and one of the more cold and moisture tolerant
aloes. Should be able to withstand light frosts. In time it offsets to form a
large cluster of heads and is a long blooming species.
Aloe brevifolia is
a coastal species and grows just north of Cape Agulhas, to the east of Cape Town
- from Bredarsdorp to the Riversdale area. - left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4 with pups @ $13.00
each
Aloe dichotoma
- South
Africa northern Cape region and Namibia. Namaqualand and Bushmanland. from near
Nieuwoudtville northwards into Namibia and eastwards to Upington and Kenhardt.
It occurs in desert and semi-desert rocky areas where it receives rainfall, if
at all, in the winter. It mostly occurs in black rock formations (called
''ysterklip'') which absorbs a lot of heat during the hot summer. (Average
summer temp. is 38°C). The rocks anchor the plants which have a
spread-root-system. The quiver tree is proof against frost. The copious nectar
of its blossoms draws birds and insects as well as baboons that can strip a tree
of its flowers in a short time. Being one of the only tree forms in its arid
habitat, Aloe dichotoma oftentimes plays host to huge colonial nests of social
weaver birds. The plants are usually found growing singly but in some areas the
plants grow in large groups, giving the effect of a forest. It is
probably the best known aloe that form an extremely tough tree with densely
rounded crown as a result of the repeatedly forked branches. It is one of the
biggest members of the genus Aloe and may reach an age of over 80 years and a
height of approximately 7(-9) metres with up to 1 m of diameter at ground level.
This is one of the most branched and tree-like species of aloe. Smooth, covered
with a thin layer of whitish powder that helps to reflect away the hot sun's
rays. Typically, the trunk tapers from a thick base towards the top and begins
to branch and re-branch dichothocomously at about half way up the trunk, earning
the plant its specific epithet for this dichotomous pattern. The bark on the
trunk is rather hard and forms beautiful golden brown scales, but beware, the
edges of these scales are razor sharp. The pith is soft, light and spongy. About
30cm long and 5cm wide, blue-green, fleshy, bearing a narrow brownish-yellow
margins margin of thorns. Leaves are arranged in a spiralled terminal rosette in
old plants, but in juvenile plants they are ranked in vertical rows. These
rosettes at the tips of the forked branches usually form a dense, rounded crown.
In this species the old dry leaves drop off so that the leafy rosettes only
remain at the tips of the branches, leaving the rest of their length clean. It
has a spread-root-system the roots are somewhat fleshy. The flowers are branch
panicles up to 30 cm tall from the base of the peduncle to the apex of the
terminal of the raceme. They are bright canary yellow, held close to the leaves,
at the tips of the branches, and are fairly short and carried erect. The flowers
are rather short and rounded in shape and not nearly as showy as many other
species of aloes. Needs well draining soil. Good
bright light. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - 1 @ $20.00
Aloe humilis 'Blue' - It's
a low growing heavily suckering succulent that forms crowded clusters. This
clustering aloe is a wonderful little power blue species that has very large
blooms compared to the size of the plant. It is a very variable species that
remains small through the entire life cycle. Virtually acaulescent (stemless) or
very shortly stemmed. Up to 20 cm in diameter. Leaves 20-30 per rosette, short,
ascending, small about 7-12 cm long and 1-1,8 cm wide, pale blue-green or
grey-green, soft, ovate to triangular shaped, obscurely lineate, very
accuminate, incurved, with thin soft white marginal spines about 3 mm long and a
gray-green dewy, waxy surface covered with irregularly spaced bumps (tubercules)
often arranged in tranverse rows on both the upper and lower surfaces. About 20
pendulous, bright orange-scarlet, tubular up to 4-5 cm long, arranged loosely on
top of a 20-35 cm tall spike. Late winter to spring and sometime later.
Habitat: South
Africa - Western Cape, Eastern Cape. Growing in 3 inch pots. - left to right -
#1, #2, #3 with pups @ $8.00 each
Aloe humilis X
pratensis 'Toothy' - This is a very large toothed form the are soft. It's
a low growing heavily suckering succulent that forms crowded clusters. This
clustering aloe is a wonderful little power blue species that has very large
blooms compared to the size of the plant. It is a very variable species that
remains small through the entire life cycle. Virtually acaulescent (stemless) or
very shortly stemmed. Up to 20 cm in diameter. Leaves 20-30 per rosette, short,
ascending, small about 7-12 cm long and 1-1,8 cm wide, pale blue-green or
grey-green, soft, ovate to triangular shaped, obscurely lineate, very
accuminate, incurved, with thin soft white marginal spines about 3 mm long and a
gray-green dewy, waxy surface covered with irregularly spaced bumps (tubercules)
often arranged in tranverse rows on both the upper and lower surfaces. About 20
pendulous, bright orange-scarlet, tubular up to 4-5 cm long, arranged loosely on
top of a 20-35 cm tall spike. Late winter to spring and sometime later.
Habitat: South
Africa - Western Cape, Eastern Cape. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 @ $15.00 each
Aloe juvenna - One of my long time faverite Aloes. To keep the nicely stacked
leaves and color this aloe need to be grown in very good light. Cool to grow in
a hanging basket. Grows on rocky mountainous areas of Kenya. Growing
in 3 inch full pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4 @ $10.00 each - Buy 10 for
$35.00.
Aloe lineata 'Blue Strap Form'
- An unusual form of Aloe
lineata from an area of Western Cape of the Republic of South Africa. It has
blue distichous, strap like leaves instead of the typical rosettes. Needs well
draining soil and good bright light. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right
- #1, #2, #3 with pups @ $13.00 each
Aloe 'Sparkling Burgandy'
- Small Aloe will have a great
burgandy color when grown in good light. Not sure who created this hybrid?
Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 with pups @ $13.00 each
Aloe sinkiana - Low growing rosettes, forms dence
clumps, yellow pom pom flowers. Needs well draining soil and good light. Sudan - Northern
Africe. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2 with pups @
$10.00 each #1 Sold
Aloiampelos tenuior -
Formerly:
Aloe tenuior is a small to medium-sized, sprawling, bushy shrublet, with a large
woody rootstock. It has slender, branching, semi-woody stems, up to 3 m long,
that grow upright, but as they grow longer, they tend to need support from
surrounding shrubs to remain erect. In time, the plant develops into a mass of
intertwined stems, up to about 1.5 m tall with a spread of up to 1.8 m. The
leaves are thin to slightly fleshy, blue-green (glaucous), unspotted, and are
crowded in lax rosettes at the ends of branches. The leaf margins have small
teeth. Growing in a 6 inch pot. 1 @ $30.00