Aloe hereroensis
A stemless, usually solitary aloe of the dry interior of southern Africa, with a rosette of lance-shaped grey-green toothed leaves about 40 cm long and branched inflorescences up to about 1 m tall carrying scarlet flowers. It grows on sandy and stony ground in the summer-rainfall savanna and semi-desert of Namibia, the Northern Cape and southern Angola. Grow it hard: full sun, a gritty mix and a dry, cool winter.
Where it grows wild
Open, sunny semi-desert and dry savanna on sand and gravel flats and stony slopes, exposed to full sun, large day-night swings and winter frosts.
Mostly on the interior plateau, roughly 900 to 1,700 m (central Namibian highlands around Windhoek and the Hardap and Northern Cape plateau); GBIF records here carry no elevations.
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