€7,95

🌱 Morphology
A small, slow-growing hybrid Aloe that forms compact rosettes approximately 8–15 cm in diameter, eventually clumping into dense clusters. Its leaves are narrow, lanceolate, and fleshy, ranging in color from silvery green to silvery gray, speckled with small white spots and edged with fine whitish teeth. The surface acquires an attractive metallic sheen under intense lighting. It can produce numerous offsets and, exceptionally, new shoots on the flower stalks themselves.

🌍 Distribution, habitat, and family
It is a complex horticultural hybrid by John Bleck: Aloe distans × Aloe meyeri. Since both its parents are aloes native to Madagascar, it has no natural distribution or habitat of its own. It belongs to the Asphodelaceae family.

❄️ Temperature
USDA 10a–11b. For cultivation in Spain, we recommend keeping it above 8 ºC, especially when grown in pots. It can tolerate occasional lower temperatures if kept completely dry and protected, but we do not recommend exposing it to frost. For a slow-growing, compact plant, it is better to err on the side of caution regarding cold.

☀️ Lighting
During growth, 20–30 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹ of DLI PAR. It needs abundant light to maintain its compact habit and enhance the silvery tones of the leaves. It tolerates mild sun and very intense light, but in Madrid, it is advisable to protect it from the strongest direct sun during the central hours of summer, especially after a period of insufficient acclimatization.

💧 Growth cycle
It has an opportunistic behavior, growing when temperatures are favorable and slowing down in intense cold or extreme heat. Water abundantly and allow the substrate to dry completely before the next watering. During winter and heatwaves, space out waterings considerably and always maintain excellent drainage.

🌸 Flowering
It produces relatively short inflorescences, approximately 15–25 cm, with tubular flowers in a coral pink to orange hue. The exact flowering season is not sufficiently documented to assign a specific month. A particularly curious aspect of this hybrid is that it can produce offsets in the axils of the bracts of the inflorescences themselves.

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

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

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

S -> 9cm x 9cm

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

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