Aloe bowiea

Aloe bowiea is restricted to a small area in the Eastern Cape Province around Port Elizabeth and Kariega at altitudes of close to sea level up to 100 m.  It is a component of karroid patches in valley bushveld vegetation. 

Plants are very small, reaching a maximum height of 140 mm.  Solitary specimens are rarely encountered. Several individuals may form dense mats of up to 500 mm in diameter. The leaves are broad at the base, but very thin and wiry upwards. Leaf colour is a uniform pale green and leaves have minute whitish spots near the bases.  The leaf margins have minute, white teeth.  An unbranched raceme of about 250 mm high is produced.  The flowers are small and dull greenish brown.

Especially in cultivation, A. bowiea has the tendency to flower throughout the year, but the summer months (November - January) are the peak flowerin time.

Aloe bowiea is critically endangered in its natural habitat due to urban and industrial expansion, agricultural development and the rapid spread of alien invasive plants.

Aloe bowiea is a really easy plant to cultivate provided it is planted in well drained soil and it is put in a warm area.

The plants on offer are flowering sized plants and will be shipped bare-rooted.