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Foliage
Flowering
Fruits
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Distribution

Family

Additional Names

English:
Aloe
English:
True Aloe, Medicinal Aloe

Characteristics and identification

Life form (Raunkiaer):
Spinescence:
absent
Succulence:
leaf succulent
Summer Shedding:
perennating
Petal or tepal color:
orange, yellow
Sexuality and Reproductive Morphology:
Flowers hermaphrodite only
Sporangia or Seed Homogeneity:
Leaf arrangement:
alternate (one leaf per node), rosette
Leaf Type:
entire
Leaf or leaflet margin:
dentate or serrate
Stipule:
absent
Deciduousness:
Habitat:
Hard rock outcrops
Drought Resistence:
Salt Resistance:
glycophyte
Synanthrop:
mostly natural, also synanthropic
Chorotype:
Mediterranean
Drought Resistence2:

Taxonomy

Superdivision:
Spermatophyta
Division:
Angiospermae
Class:
Monocotyledoneae
Family:
Asphodelaceae
Genus:
Aloe