8L Only

This stemless, medium-sized cultivar brightens the end of the winter aloe flower season with its tall-standing (up to 70 cm) clusters of long-lasting, deep red flowers, borne on branched inflorescences. The racemes are nicely spaced over the plant. The flower time is very late winter and spring. It is one of those unassuming plants that can fit in anywhere on the rockery. I prefer it in front with the yellow-flowered ‘Yellow Jewel’ that often still has flowers to show at the same time of year or combined with ‘Sun King’.

The plant tends to spread its long thin leaves rather octopus-like. The growing leaves are green in colour, sometimes with a few feint pale spots and/or stripes. They are narrowly edged in red, with red spines. The base colour quickly changes to a pinkish hue as soon as the plants are stressed by cold and/or drought and there will be some unavoidable drying of the leaf tips during this time. Best recorded flowering performance from a single rosette: 3 inflorescences with a total of 38 racemes.