Aloe mubendiensis - Succulent - Rare Ugandan Aloe - 5 seeds Exotic Flower

Aloe mubendiensis - Succulent - Rare Ugandan Aloe - 5 seeds Exotic FlowerAloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. Plants sucker profusely forming large clumps with compact rosettes of grey green leaves with dark red

spirally arranged along the inflorescence axis in catkin-like racemes borne on spurs from old wood and even on the trunk (cauliflory)

Surrounding the entrance to the trap is a structure called the peristome (the "lip") which is slippery and often quite colorful

They are best harvested young at around 10cm to 12cm

P pachycladus

The leaves are hairless

Can be started inside and transplanted outside after danger of frost

Although it's not always the case

Good disease resistance

Description - This is a sweeter squash

Exposed faces of tubercles

white papery sheaths form

Aloe mudenensis inflorescence is branched