Aloe vacillans
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Aloe vacillans
From Kew Gardens, London. This aloe grows in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
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Re: Aloe vacillans
First plant does not look a lot like vacillans, but perhaps because grown indoors, look is different. Second one is a bit odd, too, being so proliferant. Most Aloe vacillans are solitary plants, and thick-leaved, upright oriented plants with pale colored leaves
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Re: Aloe vacillans
This is an very common aloe from Yemen, where it typically grows as a stemless, solitary upright pale green to pale blue-green plant, somewhat resembling a solitary Aloe vera, though generally with thicker, short leaves. Leaves are unmarked and have small sharp brown teeth along the margins. Flowers on sparingly branched, very upright inflorescences are either yellow are red-orange. Flowering time of year varies a lot with some flowering in winter and other in summer or early fall.
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Re: Aloe vacillans
few more photos I found that were under a different (and incorrect) spelling
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