rosettes of dark greenish-grey leaves with pale spots
Plants grow to about 80-100cm high and has a continuous harvest
Growing to 5m with a single/branched stem with dense rosette of dull-pink to salmon red flowers on 1m spikes in winter
dense rosette of fleshy dull green leaves
This subspecies occurs in Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal
Aloe Melanacantha - Indigenous South African Succulent - 5 Seeds Exotic Cacti rosettes of dark greenish-grey leavesAloe 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