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Aloe millotii - A small sprawling aloe that grows to 6 to 8 inches tall, well branched from the base with decumbent stems to 10 inches long (longer with some support) that hold leaves well spaced along the thin stems and at the tips an open rosette of a few leaves. The pale green white spotted leaves are 2 to 4 inches long, narrow, recurved with a rough textured and flat on the upper surface and rounded to nearly tubular below with leaf margins having small white soft teeth. When plants are not irrigated the leaves turn an attractive rose to brown color. At various times of the year but primarily in spring appear the 1 inch long green tipped reddish orange flowers on foot long inflorescences.
Plant in full to part sun and water occasionally to infrequently. Cold hardy to around 25 °F. Makes and very interesting potted specimen with a tangle of thin wiry stems holding interesting foliage with and attractive flowers.
Aloe millotii is only known from Tanjana Vohimena (also known as Cap Saint- Marie) at Madagascar’s southernmost point where in grows on limestone in full sun or in the partial shade of Commiphora shrubs and is exposed to strong nearly continuous coastal winds. Its closest relatives are the larger and more robust Aloe antandroi and Aloe decaryi from which it differs by being smaller and more delicate and having reddish brown colored leaves. It was first described in 1955 by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds in theJournal of South African Botany (22: 21). The specific epithet honors of the French physiological anthropologist and biologist Jacques Millot (1897-1980).
We grew and sold this plant from 2022 until closing the nursery in 2025. Our plants are cuttings from one plant received in 2015 from Ernesto Sandoval at the University of California Davis Botanical Conservatory with accession number UCD B95.267.
The information displayed on this page about Aloe millotii is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We 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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