Aloe variegata


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Plant Characteristics
Habit   cacti-succulent

Height: 20 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Width: 20 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. to 32 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 32.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early winter, mid winter, late winter
Cultivation
Exposure: sun, part-sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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Read about Aloe variegata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Aloe variegata, Linn. (A. punctata, Haw.). At length with a leafy st. 6-9 in. high: lvs. green, ascending, in 3 close oblique ranks, about 1 x 2-5 in., triangular, v-shaped, abruptly acute, crossed by bands of elongated white blotches, edged and keeled by cartilaginous warty, or toward the tip serrate rather than toothed, white borders: infl. about 1 ft. high; fls. 1¼-1½ in. long, red, the green-nerved segms. rather shorter than the nearly cylindrical tube. Cape. B.M. 513. DC., PI. Gr. 21. Salm, Aloe §20, f. 2. Berger 68. G.Z. 4:92. Wien. 111. Gart. Zeit, 1904, p. 122. Gt. 29, p. 25. Mordaunt, Hb. 2:90. Lyon Hort. 21, p. 62; 22, p. 307. Deutsch. Tiefsee-Exped. 2:124. F.E. 8:98.— In habit resembling Haworthia. Varies in a form with broader lvs. with smaller less banded blotches, var. Haworthii, Berger. Hybrids: A . x smaragdina, Hort. (A. variegata x Gasteria candicans?) , A. x Rebutii, Hort. (A. variegata X Gasteria, sp.), A. x Desmetiana, Hort. (A. variegate x humilis echinata minor), A. x imbricata, Hort. (A. variegata or A. serrulata x ?), A. x mortolensis (A. variegata x Gasteria acinaciformis) .


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