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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Cacti and succulents => Topic started by: Hilary on June 17, 2016, 06:53:51 AM

Title: Aloe mitriformis
Post by: Hilary on June 17, 2016, 06:53:51 AM

Aloe mitriformis glowing in the sunset.
Identified by Oron a couple of years ago.

Title: Re: Aloe mitriformis
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on June 17, 2016, 08:15:14 AM

Aloes really are wonderful. I can see why people get so attached to them despite their spikiness.

Title: Re: Aloe mitriformis
Post by: Trevor Australis on August 01, 2018, 10:58:48 AM

Aloes are NOTORIOUS for self pollination and cross pollination with almost blatant self-indulgence, so many garden aloes tend to be hybrids rather than pure species. Alwyn Berger distributed hundreds and hundreds when he was botanist/ Head Gardener at LA MORTOLLA, and gave away many more seeds collected from the rockeries and gardens there. While the plant illustrated shows some similarities to Aloe mitriformis its leaves look too narrow to be considered mitre-like.