Aloe

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Asphodelaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Aloe

  • Description

    Genus Description - Herbs or large branching trees. Leaves spirally arranged, rosulate, rarely 2-ranked; blades thick and succulent with bitter sap, margins spiny or serrate, the apex spine-tipped. Inflorescence an elongate raceme or panicle with many nodding flowers, the scape naked toward base. Perianth segments fused into a tube with spreading or recurved lobes, red, red and green, orange, or yellow; ovary ovoid to oblong-ovoid, sessile, 3-angled with numerous ovules in each locule. Capsule coriaceous; seeds many, flattened, black.

  • Distribution

    Approximately 330 species in Africa and Madagascar, with the center of distribution in South Africa. Cultivated and becoming widespread in subtropical and tropical regions of the New World.

    Africa| Madagascar Africa| South Africa Africa| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|