Aloe bakeri
A small, clump-forming dwarf aloe from rocky hills near Tolagnaro (Fort-Dauphin) in far south-east Madagascar, with narrow, toothed, white-mottled leaves that redden in sun and red-orange tubular flowers. It is listed on CITES Appendix I, and a herbarium note records that its only known wild station was destroyed by quarrying in 2006, so almost all plants now in collections are cultivated. It wants warm, bright, humid-but-airy conditions and never real cold.
Where it grows wild
It grows on rocky outcrops and low rocky hills close to the coast in the Tolagnaro district, where it forms small clumps of rosettes in shallow pockets of soil among rock. The coast here is humid and gets rain in most months, but the rock surfaces drain and dry quickly.
Wild records lie between about 30 and 130 m, on low coastal hills.
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