Aloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe), packet of 20 seeds

Family:  Asphodel (Asphodelacea)

Hardy to Zone 7 to 12, otherwise grown as a potted plant indoors or on the summer patio.

(Mountain Aloe)  Large, single-stemmed succulent to 15 feet tall, native to South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, and Mozambique.  The rosette produces a candleabra of up to 30 racemes of yellow-orange, tubular inflorescences.  This is the archetypical aloe, towering majestically, with densely prickled, large, boat-shaped leaves on a strong stem. The plant is impenetrable, and often planted to form living fences. As a potted plant, very showy, long-lived and full of blunt spines.

20 Seeds/pkt., Open Pollinated