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Aloe cheranganiensis (Cherangani Hills Aloe) - A relatively fast-growing shrub aloe to 3 to 4 feet tall that branches from the base to form a solid mass with rosettes of 2 foot long narrow pale to mid-green colored slightly recurving leaves with lighter colored teeth. In mid fall appear the 2- to 3-foot-tall branching inflorescences with red flower buds held tight in conical racemes that open to salmon-orange colored flowers.
Plant in full sun to light shade and irrigate occasionally to infrequently. Cold hardy to 25 °F. This aloe is quite attractive to hummingbirds and makes a great landscape plant with a clean mass of nice foliage and very nice fall flowers.
The specific epithet come from the location or the type locality in the Cherangani Hills in the western highlands of Kenya where Kew botanists Susan Carter and Peter Brandham first found it. It is part of a group of related central African tetraploid aloes that includes Aloe kedongensis, Aloe dawei, Aloe elgonica, Aloe ngobitensis and Aloe nyeriensis. Our plants grown from plants received from the Institute of Aloe Studies (IAS) that were originally grown from seed collected in 1995 at Ortum, Kenya.
The information displayed on this page about Aloe cheranganiensis is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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