Aloe arborescens Miller [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 arborescens Miller [family ALOACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 3;—DC. Plantes Grasses, t. 38; Haw. Syn. 76; Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1306; Andr. Bot. Rep t. 468; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 708; Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xxvi. fig. 3; Kunth, Enum. iv. 529; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 175.
Aloe perfoliata Ait. var. arborescens [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 466.
Aloe fruticosa Lam. [family ALOACEAE], Encyc. i. 87.
Aloe arborea Medic. [family ALOACEAE], Beobacht. 305.
Catevala arborescens Medic. [family ], Theod. 67.
Information
stem slender, reaching a length of many feet below the dense rosette of leaves; leaves ensiform, very glaucous, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 2 in. broad, acuminate, neither spotted nor striped, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick in the centre, margined with close deltoid-cuspidate prickles 1/8– 1/6 in. long; peduncle stout, simple or forked, above a foot long; racemes dense, 1/2–1 ft. long; pedicels about an inch long; bracts ovate or oblong, shorter than the pedicels; perianth bright red, cylindrical, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; tube very short; stamens about as long as the perianth. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, living cultivated plants!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation about the year 1700.
Aloe arborescens Miller [family ALOACEAE]
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