Aloe humilis
A low, stemless dwarf aloe from the south-eastern Western Cape and western Eastern Cape of South Africa. It makes dense clumps of small rosettes with glaucous, warty, softly toothed leaves and sends up spikes of scarlet to orange-red flowers. It grows in karroid scrub, in sun or in the shade of shrubs, and wants a bright, well-drained, fairly dry culture with a cool winter.
Where it grows wild
Grows in dense groups in karroid (semi-arid Karoo-type) shrubland, both in open ground and in the shade of shrubs. Rosettes are 20-30 leaves, each about 10 cm long and 1.2-1.8 cm wide, grey-green and bloomed, with soft marginal teeth and warty bumps.
No elevation figures were found in the sources we opened; it is a lowland to low-upland plant of the southern Cape interior and coastal hinterland.
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