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Aloe 'Red Bird' – A large shrubby succulent likely to get to 6 feet tall or more by as wide with thick gray-green recurved leaves. In mid-winter appear the stout few branching inflorescences with tight terminal spikes of narrow dark orange-red buds that open a salmon-red color from the bottom of the spike up.
Plant in full sun to light shade. Based on its parentage this plant should prove to be both drought tolerant and hardy to moderate cold – we have only tested it to 27° F, but likely can go at least a few degrees colder. This is a selection made at our nursery in 2014 from seedlings grown from seed provided to us in March 2007 by Brian Kemble of the Ruth Bancroft Botanic Garden. The seed parent of this open pollinated hybrid was Aloe arborescens and its pollen parent is speculated to be Aloe thraskii. We also selected a second seedling that has thicker and shorter inflorescences of flowers that have dark orange buds and open to reveal yellow orange flowers that we call < href="plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3284" target="blank">'Birds and Bees'.
Information displayed on this page about Aloe 'Red Bird' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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