Aloe × spinosissima
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The Aloe × spinosissima belongs to the genus of aloes ( Aloe ). It is a hybrid of aloe arborescens and aloe humilis that was created through horticultural breeding .
description
This aloe , which is rather unsuitable for small apartments, can reach a size of about one meter for flowering and become almost as wide. Despite its name (the epithet spinosissima means "very prickly") the teeth on the leaf edges are neither very long nor unusually pointed. The new leaves are formed at the base of the old rosettes.
Systematics
The description under the taxon Aloe spinosissima by the German botanist Alwin Berger was published in 1908 in the multi-volume work Das Pflanzenreich by Adolf Engler .
literature
- Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica . Random House Australia 2003. German edition: Tandem Verlag GmbH 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5 .