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Aloe vera

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Identification
Aloe vera
Related name
  • Aloe vera
Common name
  • Barbados aloe, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • burn plant, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • unguentine cactus, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • medicinal aloe, Flora of North America Vol. 26
  • Curaçao aloe, Flora of North America Vol. 26

Flora

Entry for Aloe succotrina Lam. [family ALOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
Aloe succotrina Lam. [family ALOACEAE], Encyc. i. 85;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 173.
Aloe soccotrina DC. [family ALOACEAE], Plantes Grasses, t. 85; Haw. Syn. 75; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxii. fig. 1.
Aloe soccotorina Kunth [family ALOACEAE], Enum.iv. 524.
Aloe perfoliata Curt. var. succotrina [family ALOACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 472.
Aloe vera Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 15, non Linn.
Information
stem when mature 3–4 ft. long below the dense rosette of leaves, simple or forked; leaves 30–40, ensiform, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad low down, 1/4 in. thick in the centre, tapering gradually from below the middle to the apex, slightly glaucous, not prickly on the back, sometimes slightly spotted; margin with close, spreading, white, deltoid teeth 1/12 in. long, turning purple when old; peduncle simple, above a foot long, with several deltoid empty bracts; raceme dense, a foot long; pedicels ascending, 3/4–1 in. long; bracts oblong, reddish, half as long as the pedicels; perianth cylindrical, reddish, 1 1/4 in. long; tube very short; stamens scarcely exserted. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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