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A. ciliaris can be identified by the tiny white "eyelashes", or "cilia" (=ciliaris), that line the leaves, fully encircling the stem at their bases.. The common climbing-aloe can be differentiated from other Aloiampelos species by the way that the soft, white, hair-like teeth ("cilia"=ciliaris) that appear along the leaf margins, extending fully around the stem at the base of the leaf.
When potted, aloes can become crowded with "pups" growing from the sides of the "mother plant". Plants that have become crowded can be divided and repotted to allow room for further growth, or the pups can be left with the mother plant. [44] During winter, Aloe vera may become dormant, during which little moisture is required. [44]
Aloe vera plants need well-draining soil, like a potting mix designed for succulents. Those soils, by design, drain faster and hold less water than standard potting soil.
The dune aloe is a tall, fast-growing, un-branched aloe, which develops a very large rosette. The long, pale, grey-green leaves are deeply grooved or channeled (U-shaped in cross-section) and recurve downwards. The orange and yellow flowers grow in short, compact, cylindrical racemes, on multi-branched inflorescences. [2]
These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and are covered with hairs that facilitate the spreading of a secretion over their bodies that acts as a water repellent and carrier of pheromones . [ 1 ]
Aloiampelos striatula is a robust rambling plant that can form a large shrub up to 2 m in height. It is closely related to Cape Town's Aloiampelos commixta, but it is easily distinguished from it by the distinctive dark green stripes on the stems and leaf sheaths (its species name, striatula, means "little stripes"), and by its thin, recurved leaves (which, like its flowers, are more densely ...
Plants growing in full sun develop tightly arranged bluish leaves, while those in the shade have more widely spaced green leaves. During dry conditions, the leaves assume a red colour. The thick, fleshy leaves often curve inwards during times of drought – making the rosette look rather like a mitre (until recently this species was known as ...
Kumara plicatilis, formerly Aloe plicatilis, the fan-aloe, is a succulent plant endemic to a few mountains in the Fynbos ecoregion, of the Western Cape in South Africa. [2] The plant has an unusual and striking fan-like arrangement of its leaves. It may grow as a large multistemmed shrub or as a small tree.