Aloe Excelsa - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds Fruit

Aloe Excelsa - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds FruitAloe 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

white flowers with green tubes & red keels Spring to Summer

referring to the African ape that consumes the corms of plants in the genus

branched inflorescence

Solitary plants with variable leaves

a good shade plant

heads of pure white flowers in Summer-Autumn

The native range of the genus is from southern Namibia to the Eastern Cape to southern Zimbabwe

From the northern coastal regions of Natal

Nymphaea (Egyptian lotuses) are also not related to the Chinese and Indian lotus of genus Nelumbo

Although it is about the same height as subsp

yellow tulip-like flowers with dark centre Summer

Season to Sow - Autumn / Spring