Алоэ Марлота (Горное Алоэ)
Aloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe)
also known as: Mountain Aloe, Flat-flowered Aloe, Spiny Aloe, Горное Алоэ, Aloe marlothii, Алоэ Марлота
Genus:61f84849a994cf1f88e163300
Properties
- Foliage
- evergreen
- Climatic zone
- 11 (down to 10 °C)
- Life cycle
- perennial
- Plant type
- shrub
- Fruit type
- decorative
- Soil drainage
- moderately drained
- Height
- 2–3 m
- Width
- 1.5–2 m
- Flowering time
- January, October, November, December, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September
- Soil pH
- acidic, alkaline, neutral, slightly alkaline, weakly acidic
- Soil type
- loam, sandy
- Sunlight
- sun
About this plant
Updated: 4 weeks ago- Morphology
- Алоэ Марлота — деревянистое или кустарниковое растение из рода Алоэ (Aloe) семейства Асфоделовые (Asphodelaceae). Видовое латинское название дано в честь немецкого ботаника и фармацевта Рудольфа Марлота (1855—1931). Solitary, arborescent plant of up to 5 - 6 m high (subsp. marlothii) or 1.00 - 1.75 m high (subsp. orientalis). Stem simple and erect (subsp. marlothii) or often suckering to form small groups and erect or oblique to procumbent (subsp. orientalis), densely covered with persistent dried leaves. Leaves densely rosulate, suberect to spreading and eventually pendent, dull grey-green to glaucous (subsp. marlothii) or arcuate-incurved to spreading or slightly decurved, glaucous to blue-green (subsp. orientalis), without spots, with scattered, reddish-brown, pungent spines, usually more copious on lower surface (subsp. marlothii) or with no to few surface prickles (subsp. orientalis), lanceolate-attenuate, 100 - 150 cm long, 20 - 25 cm wide at base (subsp. marlothii) or 75 - 150 cm long, 8 - 25 cm wide at base (subsp. orientalis); margin with stout, pungent, reddish-brown teeth, 3 - 6 mm long, 10 - 20 mm apart (subsp. marlothii) or 3 - 4 mm long, 8 - 25 mm apart (subsp. orientalis); exudate honey-coloured. Inflorescence up to 0.8 m high, 10 - to 30 - branched from below middle, lower branches rebranched, branches horizontal to spreading. Racemes cylindrical, 30 - 50 cm long, horizontal to suboblique (subsp. marlothii) or 15 - 25 cm long, spreading to rarely erect (subsp. orientalis), dense; flowers markedly secund when open. Floral bracts 8 - 9 mm long, 5 mm wide (subsp. marlothii) or 4 - 9 mm long, 2 - 5 mm wide (subsp. orientalis). Pedicels 5 - 8 mm (subsp. marlothii) or 3 - 5 mm (subsp. orientalis) long. Flowers: perianth orange to yellowish-orange, 30 - 35 mm long, + / - 7 mm wide across ovary (subsp. marlothii) or yellow to orange, 18 - 30 mm long (subsp. orientalis), enlarging above ovary, narrowing towards usually wide-open mouth, cylindrical-clavate to cylindrical-ventricose (subsp. marlothii) or cylindrical to ventricose (subsp. orientalis); outer segments free for 20 - 23 mm (subsp. marlothii) or for 6 - 15 mm (subsp. orientalis); stamens exserted to 15 mm; style exserted 15 - 20 mm (subsp. marlothii) or stamens and style exserted 8 - 12 mm (subsp. orientalis).
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- Weekly
