Aloe citrea
A stemless aloe from eastern Madagascar with dense rosettes of about 16 dark green, toothed leaves up to 28 cm long and simple racemes of lemon-yellow flowers. It belongs to the former genus Lomatophyllum, so it sets large yellow berries rather than dry capsules. It grows in humus pockets on gneiss outcrops at 900–1200 m in a humid region, so it wants more moisture and less baking than a typical desert aloe, while still needing fast drainage.
Where it grows wild
It roots into pockets of humus on gneiss rock outcrops in the eastern Malagasy highlands, where the surrounding vegetation is humid forest and the rock surfaces are open to the sun for much of the day.
Recorded at 900–1200 m.
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