![]() Other uses: Unlike Aloe dichotoma, there are no cultural or medicinal uses associated with the maiden's quiver tree. Edible uses: The young flower buds can be eaten and have a similar appearance and taste to asparagus. They can be grown in large containers too. They will grow best in regions with a climate close to that of their native deserts – not too cold, and not too wet. Gardening and landscaping: In mild climates they can be cultivated outdoors for use in landscaping, preferably planting it in hot and dry rock gardens. If kept dry it is frost resistant and without trouble. It grows much better outdoors in spring and summer. Hardiness: They can take a few degrees of frost in winter as well, but prefer hot summers. If they are not, fungicides won't help all that much. Rot it is only a minor problem with aloes if the plants are watered and “aired” correctly. Pest & diseases: Incorrect watering, poor drainage or too much shade can lead to attack by pests and diseases. Watering: When growing this Aloe, one must be careful not to overwater. Exposure: It can tolerate moderate shade, and a plant that has been growing in shade should be slowly hardened off before placing it in full sun as the plant will be severely scorched if moved too suddenly from shade into sun. Use preferably a cacti and succulents fertilizer with high potassium content including all micro nutrients and trace elements or slow release fertilizer. Fertilization: Need a perfect fertilizer diet in summer. Potting: It is best suited to being grown in a pot around here so that it has excellent drainage. Soil: Always use a good quality, loamy sandy soil with plenty of drainage chips at the bottom of containers. They are long lived plants and once established, they will be content in their position and with their soil for years. Growing rate: They grow slowly, but not agonisingly so – being able to increase their height by 10 - 20 cm per year under favourable conditions. Like its closest relative, Aloe dichotoma, it has a very old and almost stressed appearance making this an excellent and sought-after container plant or wonderful landscape specimens in the garden, although it doesn't make a trunk. Seeds: Narrow, winged, up to about 30 x 18 mm.Ĭultivation and Propagation: Winter grower, it is sometimes a tricky grower and prone to rot. Fruits: Shiny and smooth dry capsule that split into three, remaining fused at the base. Blooming season: Winter: Definitely slow to flower, like Aloe dichotoma, takes quite awhile before it blooms, the first flower will be produced when plants gets 1-1,5 m of height (about 10 to 15 old). Flowers: Bright yellow, comparatively large, tubular, conspicuous, swollen, fleshy on a usually 3-branched short inflorescence, up to 200 mm long. The margins have narrow edges with small brownish teeth base encircling the stem. The leaf colour is glaucous-green or yellowish green, often with a pinkish tinge. Leaves: The branches end in small rosettes of fleshy, oblong leaves, each up to 200 mm long and 20 mm wide at the base. The plants tends to be longer-stemmed and less branched in more arid areas. The trunk is normally very short smooth and covered with strips of satiny, waxy, powdery silver-pink-brown coloured bark, which acts as a sunscreen in the harsh climate. Branching continues as the plant becomes older, resulting in a dense, almost spherical shrub. This is the only significant difference between A. Stems: As mentioned before, this aloe forms many branches from the ground level. Other than this low branching habit and usually smaller leaf size, it is virtually identical to Aloe dichotoma, and some consider it a subspecies of A. It will form a succulent bush up to 1,2(-1,8) m tall and wide. Description: It is a slow growing tree (shrub) type aloe known for its many branches and smooth, white stems, and without a doubt the most profusely branched of all aloes.
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