Aloe Mitriformis - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds Tomato

Aloe Mitriformis - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds TomatoAloe is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. Most Aloe species have a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. The leaves are often lance shaped with

Heavily ribbed

5m with loose panicles of branches with red racemes of flowers in winter

and occur in tight clusters

The leaves are often lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin

appear in the cleft

Growing to a massive 10m vigorous large-leaved climber

stems and branches usually dark to black coloured

are minute but are packed in spherical clusters

as it provided foliage and fruit to the animal life of the Kalahari

pink/blue flowers in Autumn

the mountains of tropical Africa

plants older than 2 years have been observed to be somewhat frost resistant