The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Aloe khamiesensis
Also called Kamiesberg Aloe, Khamiesberg Speckled Aloe, Khamiesberg Aloe
Namaqua Aloe (Aloe khamiesensis) is a small, spiny-leaved succulent shrub from the dry western interior of South Africa. It grows best in full sun with very sharp drainage and little water.
Aloe khamiesensis (also called Khamiesberg aloe or tweederly in Afrikaans) is a species of plant in the genus Aloe.
It is endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in the dry, western interior regions of Namaqualand and Bushmanland. It is closely related to Aloe microstigma which occurs in and around the Little Karoo to the south, and to Aloe microstigma subsp. framesii which occurs to the west along the Namaqualand coast.
Aloe aaata · Aloe aageodonta · Aloe abyssicola · Tent Cent Aloe · Spotted Aloe · African Aloe · White Grass Aloe · Aloe albiflora · Aldabra Aloe · Aloe ambigens · Aloe andongensis · Wylliespoort Aloe
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aloe khamiesensis 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.
