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Aloe 'Dhufar Rose' – A hybrid aloe with rosettes of short smooth toothless recurved lanceolate leaves that are an olive green color that turns shades of red orange wen grown in full or part sun. In winter to spring appear the salmon-colored flowers on a foot long unbranched inflorescence that is very similar to the parent species.
Plant in full to part sun in a well-drained soil and give occasional to infrequent irrigation Full/part sun. Has proven hardy to 31° F and likely could take it a little cooler. A very interesting and attractive aloe with a unique form and foliage color.
This hybrid was the result of a selection from seedlings resulting from open pollinated seed collected from our plants of Aloe dhufarensis in 2016. The plants of Aloe dhufarensis were originally grown from seed received from Brian Kemble at the Ruth Bancroft garden in 2010 that he collected from a hand pollinated garden plant. Our Aloe dhufarensis plants really did not grow that well for us and our thought was that our coastal California climate was too cool and different from the deserts of Saudi Arabian Peninsula where this species grows, but this hybrid seems to thrive here. For more information on the parent species see our listing for Aloe dhufarensis.
We planned to introduce this hybrid plant in 2023 but by that time had announced that we would be closing our nursery in 2025 and so we never put the plants out for sale and instead distributed the plants to interested parties who we thought might continue on with them.
The information displayed on this page about Aloe 'Dhufar Rose' 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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