🌱 Morphology: A compact Aloe cultivar that forms rosettes of fleshy, lanceolate, green leaves with small marginal teeth and an attractive pattern of light spots and lines. With intense light, it can acquire reddish tones, especially on the margins and tips of the leaves. It produces offsets and forms clumps over time.

🌍 Distribution, habitat, and family: This is a horticultural cultivar, so it has no natural distribution or habitat of its own. I have not found reliable documentation to establish its parentage. It belongs to the family Asphodelaceae.

❄️ Temperature: Approximately USDA 10a–11b. For cultivation in Spain, it is recommended to keep it above 5 °C. In a pot, avoid the combination of cold and wet substrate.

☀️ Light: Approximate target of 15–25 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹ DLI of PAR during growth. Prefers abundant light or soft sun, with progressive acclimation. In Madrid, it appreciates protection from the most intense direct sun during extreme heat episodes.

💧 Growth cycle: Opportunistic, growing when temperatures are favorable and slowing down with intense cold or extreme heat. During the active period, water abundantly and let the substrate dry completely before the next watering. In summer, space out waterings during heatwaves and reduce them considerably in winter.

🌸 Flowering: It can produce inflorescences with tubular flowers in orange or reddish tones. At DesertSTORE, the usual flowering period has been observed to be February–May, although it may vary depending on cultivation conditions.

🌿 Nutrition: During active growth, use Desert CHOICE® Aloes, Haworthia & Co., specifically formulated for these plants and with a particularly important contribution of calcium and potassium. Reduce or suspend fertilization during slowdown periods.

This is an inimitable xerophytic plant cultivated in Madrid in a technological square pot and with a substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.