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Wylliespoort Aloe

Aloe angelica

Also called Soutpansberg Aloe

Wylliespoort Aloe
Photo: Daderot, CC0

Wylliespoort Aloe (Aloe angelica) is a large, single-stemmed South African aloe that can reach 3 to 4 metres tall. Give it full sun, sharp drainage and infrequent deep watering, and it is a striking landscape or large container succulent.

Family
Asphodelaceae (Aloe family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; reduce to very little in winter.
Soil
Fast-draining cactus or succulent mix, or sandy gritty soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Limpopo
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Aloe angelica (Wylliespoort Aloe) is a species of aloe endemic to the Soutpansberg and Blouberg mountains in the Northern Province of South Africa. It is a large, single-stemmed plant, 3–4 meters in height, with green, succulent leaves, bent backward, and red-budded flowers in compact bunches on much-branched racemes, turning yellow as they flower.

Other Aloe plants

Aloe aaata · Aloe aageodonta · Aloe abyssicola · Tent Cent Aloe · Spotted Aloe · African Aloe · White Grass Aloe · Aloe albiflora · Aldabra Aloe · Aloe ambigens · Aloe andongensis · Aloe ankaranensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aloe angelica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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