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Aloiampelos ciliaris
Also called Common Climbing Aloe
A fast-growing, thin-leaved succulent climber from the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa, with hooked leaves that help it scramble up through thickets. It needs a support such as a trellis, pole or rock, or regular pruning, to stop it becoming a sprawling mound.
Aloiampelos ciliaris (formerly Aloe ciliaris), the common climbing-aloe, is a thin-leaved and generally rapidly-growing succulent plant from Southern Africa.
Aloiampelos ciliaris is naturally widespread in the coastal and chaparral-like vegetation of the Eastern Cape, flowing into the Western Cape border's fynbos habitat. At the bases of dry river canyons and valleys, where they grow in thorny thickets, their long stems develop rapidly upwards and out, searching for the light at the top of the canyon. Their recurved leaves act as hooks, allowing the plants to anchor themselves in the thick vegetation or vertically along rocky hillsides, cliff faces, and canyon walls.
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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.
