ALOE PLANT / liliacese
Most Aloe is from South Africa, it is a stemless or short stemmed succulent plant 80 to 100 cm tall. The leaves are thick, lanceolate and serrated. Blooms are 1 inch tubular yellow on a 90 cm tall spike. Some species bloom every month between midwinter through summer. Foliage can be green or gray green

CLASSIFICATIONS OF ALOE:
A. arborescens / tree aloe-may reach 18 fee6t when old. Gray-green, spiny edge leaves. Blooms early to mid winter with spiky, bright vermilion to clear yellow flowers.

1. Barbadensis / A. vera / medicinal aloe-narrow, fleshy, stiffy, upright, spiky, 1-2 feet long foliage, yellow flowers atop 3 foot stalk. Aloe vera makes good plants for boarder line areas.
2. saponaria broad, thick, 8 inch long foliage with white spot. Orange-red to shrimp-pink blooms on 1.5 to 2.5 feet stem.

A.  variegata / partridge-breast aloe / tiger aloe

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HOW TO PLANT AND CARE FOR ALOE:
Aloe is showy and easy to grow. It can be grown either in garden or container cultures indoor or outdoor where it is frost-free. It flourishes in warm and dry climates; though it needs little water, it can take regular watering in well-drained soil. Most kinds of aloe makes excellent container plants, where winters are too cold, grow them in pots and shelter them from frost. Indoor, it can be grown beside the window or in very bright, indirect light, water thoroughly when dry.

MEDICINAL USES OF ALOE:
Traditionally, for centuries, aloe vera was used to treat external cuts, bites, burns, eczema and various other skin conditions. It is used as a pain reliever, anti-inflammatory ointment and in cosmetic skin care beauty products. Aloe vera leaves sap or gel that is obtained from the inner core of the spiky aloe vera leaves contain over 70 known ingredients. Scientist are now turning to traditional natural plant and herbal remedies for health care, skin care and other therapeutic use, for this reason, aloe vera has been attracting a lot of interest among scientists in the medical fields.

HOW TO PROPAGATE ALOE:
Division of clump can easily propagate aloe, dig up the over crowded clump from either the garden or pot, carefully separating each aloe from the clump and immediately replanting it in pots or in garden. This replanted aloe will in no time produce several new growth which can soon over crowd the pot.