€15,90

🌱 Morphology
   Compact aloe that forms an attractive spiral rosette of fleshy, triangular, and relatively wide leaves. The leaves feature a characteristic green and cream variegation with a marked silvery appearance, which is responsible for its trade name. The margins may have small teeth, and the leaves are relatively delicate, so they can be damaged during handling. With good lighting, it maintains a compact structure and more intense coloration.

🌍 Distribution, habitat and family
It is a horticultural cultivar, with no natural distribution or native wild habitat. I have not found reliable documentation that allows us to establish its parents, so it is not advisable to attribute a specific parentage to it. It belongs to the Asphodelaceae family. The RHS recognizes the name ‘Lotus Silver’, although it currently maintains its botanical status as unresolved.

❄️ Temperature
USDA 9b–11b. For cultivation in Spain, we recommend keeping it above 5 ºC, especially in a pot and with high ambient or substrate humidity. It can tolerate occasional drops close to 0 ºC if it remains completely dry and protected, but we do not recommend exposing it to frost. The value of -1 ºC currently listed on DesertSTORE should be considered an exceptional limit, not a safe growing temperature.

☀️ Lighting
During growth, 15–25 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹ of PAR DLI. It needs a lot of light to maintain its compact habit and attractive silvery hue, although in Madrid it is preferable to protect it from the most intense direct summer sun. A very bright location, with soft morning sun or filtered light during the middle hours, is especially suitable.

💧 Growth cycle
It has an opportunistic growth habit, capable of growing whenever suitable temperatures are available. It may slow down during very hot summers and cold winters. Water abundantly and let the substrate dry out completely before the next watering. In winter, significantly reduce the frequency and avoid letting it remain damp for prolonged periods. The RHS warns that aloes do not thrive in continuously damp substrates.

🌸 Flowering
It can produce typical Aloe inflorescences, with tubular yellow or reddish flowers, raised on leafless flower stalks. RHS references place the flowering of this type of aloe mainly in summer or autumn.

🌿 Nutrition
During growth periods, use Desert CHOICE® Aloes, Haworthia & Co., formulated specifically for this group of succulents and with an adequate supply of calcium and potassium. Reduce or suspend fertilization during cold periods or when vegetative growth slows down.

This is an inimitable xerophyte grown in Madrid in a high-tech square pot and with substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.

📏 The size of our collection xerophytes is as follows:

13x13 cm pot

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

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