Compilation
Aloe schinzii

Perennial herb or small tree, solitary, usually caulescent, with a thick simple stem to 2(4) m high covered with persistent withered leaves. Leaves in a compact rosette, erect-spreading; lamina to 60 cm long, c. 12 cm wide at the base, lanceolate, pale greyish-green, tinged reddish in dry conditions, without spots when mature but a few spots present on young plants; margin cartilaginous, yellow, with pungent deltoid, red-brown teeth 2–4 mm long and 10–15 mm apart; sap dries yellow. Inflorescence erect, 1–2 m tall above the leaf rosette; peduncle up to 10-branched, the lower branches usually rebranching; branches curving upwards bearing the racemes erect, subtended by deltoid scarious bracts c. 15 × 15 mm, with a few sterile bracts below each raceme. Racemes 30–60 × 6 cm, cylindrical-acuminate, ± laxly flowered; bracts 12–15 × 6 mm, lanceolate, scarious, whitish, deflexed in fruit; pedicels 6–10 mm long elongating to c. 15 mm in fruit. Perianth pinkish-red, yellowish toward the mouth, with a bloom, 27–34 mm long, 6 mm in diameter across the ovary, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free to c. halfway, with slightly recurved tips. Stamens and stigma slightly exserted. Capsule 20 × 10 mm, oblong-ovoid, pale greyish-brown. Seeds 4.5 × 8.5 mm, black with broad white wings.