10 Aloe comosa Seeds RARE - Indigenous Succulents

Aloe comosa Seeds

Aloe comosa is a striking, single-stemmed, summer-flowering aloe that is hardly known in cultivation.

Description
Aloe comosa is a single-stemmed aloe that under favourable conditions can reach a height of 2 m; when in flower, the total height may be more than 5 m— the actual flowering spike can attain heights of 3 m or more!

The leaves are blue-green, smooth and slightly recurved (bent backwards). The margins of the leaves have small red brown thorns. The inflorescence, is branched—normally not more than three flower spikes can be seen emerging from the crown. The flower spikes are erect in growth form. Flower colour ranges from rosy-cream to ivory-pink. In most cases the flower spikes are bicoloured: pale at the bottom of the spike with a darker pink hue on the upper parts.

What makes this particularly aloe interesting is the fact that it flowers during the hottest and driest part of the year—November and December.

Distribution
Aloe comosa has a very small distribution in the winter rainfall area of South Africa . It occurs only in a small section of the northwestern part of the Western Cape : just north of the town of Clanwilliam and in sheltered kloofs bordering on the Ceres Karoo. It is used to extreme heat (above 40°C), but it can survive in mild winter temperatures (–1°C).

Aloe comosa

This is a stunning plant to have in your aloe or water-wise garden.