€15,90

🌱 Morphology

It is one of the smaller Aloes. It is practically stemless and forms compact rosettes about 7–15 cm high and up to 20 cm in diameter, which produce numerous offsets and eventually form dense colonies. Its leaves are short, lanceolate, very acuminate and incurved, bluish-green or grayish-green. The most distinctive features are its surface covered with small tubercles or soft whitish spines, present mainly on the underside, and its toothed margins with soft white teeth.

🌍 Distribution, habitat and family

It is endemic to South Africa, with distribution from the Little Karoo to the Eastern Cape, including areas near Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Somerset East and Grahamstown. It lives on rocky slopes, dry scrubland and renosterveld, often among rocks or under the protection of shrubs, on well-drained soils, even clayey ones. It belongs to the family Asphodelaceae.

❄️ Temperature

USDA 9b–11. It is one of the relatively cold-hardy dwarf Aloes and can temporarily withstand temperatures close to −4 °C when dry, but in pots we recommend keeping it above 5 °C and avoiding cold, humidity, and wet substrate occurring simultaneously.

☀️ Lighting

During growth, 20–30 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹ of DLI PAR. It tolerates and benefits from a lot of light, which keeps its rosettes compact and enhances the grayish-blue tone and white tubercles. In Madrid, it is advisable to progressively acclimate it to direct sunlight and protect it from the most extreme summer sun if it is in a small pot.

💧 Growth cycle

Opportunistic, although it comes from a region with marked seasonality and can slow down during periods of heat and drought. In cultivation, it can grow at different times if it has moderate temperatures and water. Water abundantly and let the substrate dry completely before the next watering. In winter, especially with low temperatures, significantly space out waterings.

🌸 Flowering

It produces simple, erect, unbranched racemes, about 25–45 cm long, with hanging tubular flowers from scarlet red to orange-red, exceptionally orange. In Madrid, flowering usually occurs approximately from February–May, although it may vary depending on growing conditions.

🌿 Nutrition

Fertilize during growth periods with Desert CHOICE® Aloes, Haworthia & Co., providing especially calcium and potassium without forcing excessively rapid growth. Reduce or suspend fertilization during cold periods or periods of significant slowdown.

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

📏 The size of our basic collection xerophytes are as follows:

S -> 9cm x 9cm

* As this is an online purchase, the appearance of the specimen sent may vary slightly from the product image. The plant's measurements are specified in the photo description, but this may also vary slightly, because it is a living being! Each of Desert CITY's plants has unique characteristics.

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