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Products > Aloe marlothii   Aloe marlothii - Mountain Aloe     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Succulent Family: Aloeaceae (now Asphodeloideae) Origin: South Africa (Africa) Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: Orange Red Bloomtime: Fall/Winter Height: 8-10 feet Exposure: Full Sun Summer Dry: Yes Deer Tolerant: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 20-25° F Aloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe) - Succulent unbranched large aloe that often grows to 10 feet tall with persistent old leaves making a skirt around the trunk. The leaves of the Mountain Aloe are large, of a gray-green color, with reddish-brown spines along the margins and randomly on other parts of the leaf. In late fall to late winter appears the wide-spread branching inflorescence bearing red-orange flowers. Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil. Requires little to no supplemental irrigation in coastal California gardens. Hardy to 20° F. The Mountain Aloe is a wide-ranging species from KwaZulu-Natal into Mocambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana and there is considerable variability in flower color and shape of the inflorescence. Our plants are from seed purchased from Silverhill Seeds in South Afica and are described as the typical form with horizontal inflorescence and dark orange flowers. Other common names often used for the Mountain Aloe include Spiny Aloe, Flat Flowered Aloe and the Africaner names Bergaalwyn and Boomaalwyn. The specific epithet 'marlothii' commemorates the botanist H.W. Rudolf Marloth.  The information that is presented on this page is based on research we have conducted about this plant in our library and from reliable online sources. We also consider observations we have made of it in the nursery's garden and in other gardens we have visited, as well how it performs in our nursery crops out in the field. We incorporate comments that we receive from others as well and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if they know of cultural information that would aid others in growing  Aloe marlothii.     [MORE INFO]