Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

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.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Malagasy Tree Aloe

Aloe vaombe

Malagasy Tree Aloe
Photo: Daderot, CC0

Aloe vaombe is a succulent, evergreen tree-like aloe from southern Madagascar, with a single unbranched stem that can reach about 5 m. It needs full sun, good drainage and little water, and is best suited to warm, seasonally dry climates.

Family
Asphodelaceae (Aloe family)
Grows as
Succulent
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out completely between waterings.
Soil
Fast-draining sandy or cactus mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Aloe vaombe is a species of aloe endemic to southern Madagascar. It is a succulent, evergreen plant with an unbranched stem up to 5 meters in height, and 20 cm in diameter.

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 · Wylliespoort Aloe

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aloe vaombe 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…