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Aloe lettyae
Letty's Spotted Aloe is an endangered, small succulent from the Woodbush Granite Grassland in South Africa, named after botanical artist Cythna Letty. It grows best in full sun in very well-drained, sandy granitic soil.
Aloe lettyae is a species of aloe endemic to the Woodbush Granite Grassland in the Haenertsburg Nature Reserve in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. It is endangered species, prone to fires and introduction of foreign species for economical reasons. They have become a face for this highly threatened area lacking in proper research for various ecological reasons.
Aloe lettyae was named in honor of Cythna Letty, a famous South African botanical artist, in 1937.
The species naturally occurs in Limpopo Province in South Africa between Haenertsburg and Tzaneen and is restricted to this small area which has relatively high rainfall and granitic soils that are sandy and drains very fast. Aloe lettyae is an endemic to endangered Woodbush Granite Grassland in Limpopo Province and occupies 123 km2 of land out of 17.5ha habitat. Aloe lettyae were severely vegetation fragmented that clustered on south western of Wood Bush Granite Grassland less than 40km apart, varying from 10 to 6547 plants and approximately 10,800 individuals. Fragments of Woodbush Granite Grassland were found to comprise 77-89% of adult Aloe Lettyae and 3-14% of the juveniles.
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 lettyae 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.
