This plant may take many years to flower and indeed may not flower at all unless it can cross pollinate with another plant. Offer fleece protection or temporarily cover the plant with some bubblewrap or similar. Plants in the ground can cope with extreme cold better than those in planters or pots. Protect from hard frosts and extended periods of cold. Once established it should cope with rain and cold, but perhaps treat with care whilst the plant is young. Bury seedling with the roots just showing. Remove seeds one by one as germination occurs and place into soil into which sand has been added. 28 days but is erratic and can take much longer, a couple of months or more. Germination occurs in the water, starting from approx. Our supplier tells us that it is a "fantastic" plant for England as it loves the cold and ample moisture - unlike the residents! 1ft (30cm) A genus of succulent plants with thick leaves arranged in rosettes - always popular as house plants. Patience will be required for the flowering event but patience that will be well rewarded. It produces a flowering stem branching into several spikes of reddish to salmon-pink flowers. The plants for sale are slow growing and do not begin to spiral until until.
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The excitement starts when the plant reaches approximately 40cm in diameter when it starts to spiral, either clockwise or anti-clockwise, with the thick, fleshy, grey-green leaves with sharp tips becoming purplish-brown, eventually growing into a large rosette 60cm in diameter and 30cm in height. Download this stock image: Spiral aloe Aloe polyphylla Melbourne botanical. On germination, which would appear to present no problem, a single leaf appears with the following leaves produced alternately opposite each other. Sadly, our business is for sale due to the owners retiring. Happy gardening and enjoy your visit to .za SOLI DEO GLORIA. It grows as a single rosette with the leaves growing in a spiral formation these can grow in a clockwise or anti clockwise spiral. Leave natural plant populations undisturbed a selected aloe hybrid cultivar is better suited to garden conditions and will produce more and better flowers. It is a succulent from Lesotho and grows in the Drakensberg mountains above the snow line so will tolerate the cold.
It does best in well drained soil an ideal mix would be 1 part potting soil to 1 part pumice rock or lava rock, with 25 % horticultural sand added.We are very lucky to again have seeds of this fascinating, rare and beautiful Aloe from the mountains of Lesotho with every chance of proving hardy in this country. This is one of the most unusual plants we sell. Cool and damp, morning sun afternoon shade, never allow to dry out completely. Grow this Aloe as you would any Alpine plant. It does best in mild temperatures, with growth slowing or stopping when the temperature gets above 85 -90 degrees F. At about 2 years old the leaves begin to spiral either to the right or to the left when viewed from above.Īloe polyphylla comes from very high elevations, where the climate is cool, and nights are cooler. The leaves contain a considerable amount of water, so they are quite plump.
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The Spiral Aloe is a fast growing species that can reach its full size in 5 or 6 years. The unique spiral arrangement of its leaves make Aloe polyphylla very special. Aloe polyphylla is a beautiful and rare species evolved in the high mountains of Drakensberg in southern Africa. The tips usually become dark purplish brown and are quite sharp. We invite you to discover all this amazing plant has to offer. There are soft white teeth along the margins of the leaf. Each greenish gray leaf has a broad base and narrows to a dark tip. Mature plants have five ranks of leaves which contain 15 to 30 leaves growing in either a clockwise or counterclockwise pattern. The most unusual feature of this aloe is the perfect spiral in which the leaves are arranged.
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