Aloe bellatula
A small, clump-forming grass aloe from the central highlands of Madagascar, with narrow dark green leaves 10–13 cm long speckled with pale spots and loose spikes of light coral-red bells. It is critically endangered and on CITES Appendix I, so plants in cultivation should come from nursery-propagated stock. Grow it like other small Madagascan highland aloes: bright light, a warm wet summer and a cool, dry winter.
Where it grows wild
Mountain slopes in the central highlands of Madagascar; Wikipedia names Ambatomenaloha mountain, and herbarium labels come from the Ambalavao, Itremo and Ihosy areas of Fianarantsoa. The labels give no detail of the ground; small highland grass aloes typically grow among rocks and grass in open, fire-prone grassland.
German Wikipedia gives about 1,500 m; herbarium labels give 800–900 m, so it probably spans roughly 800–1,500 m.
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