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Aloe compressa paucituberculata new 5-08.jpg (165.34 KiB) Viewed 2401 times
Aloe compressa var paucituberculata flowering new 10-07.jpg (163.7 KiB) Viewed 2401 times
Aloe compressa var paucituberculata closer 10-07.jpg (137.06 KiB) Viewed 2401 times
Aloe compressa early flower 10-08.jpg (131.37 KiB) Viewed 2401 times
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This plant looks like the other Aloe compressas from Madagascar, only it has nearly completely smooth leaf undersides. Flowers are somewhat pinkish-yellow in a ball-shaped raceme.
Anybody have an idea at its cold limits? Seeing that its a Malagasy Aloe...I have a so-so record with them. Aloe dorotheae not so good,Aloe cameronii ok but for one really cold night. I might keep this on a shelve outdoors in winter that has a shelf over it.
That's what was on the label Geoff. I was looking forward to keeping the original look..and that deep red too would have been nice. It might turn red in summer and underpotted. Its never bloomed,at least not yet.
photos of older plants in nature (in the Lavranos book on Aloes) shows multiple plants, some decades old, all distichous (same with all the other Aloe compressas)... and all have narrow leaves, too, unlike that plant in your last photo... I have had hundreds of labeled aloes, not to mention just about any other genus of plant, turn out not be that plant, even from some very reputable sources. Sometimes things just get mixed up, labels mixed up, or plants are acquired dinky, or even as seed, when really they could be nearly anything. Either way, I am guessing your plant is not an Aloe compressa.. not sure what it IS, though. Many aloe species start out distichous and then radiate as they mature, so that is not unusual. Nice looking plant, though. Never seen an Aloe compressa with such color, or such shiny leaves, either.
I would think its not A.c.p.
It wasnt ordered..so it must have been a low price and I liked the look at the time. Now to see what it comes to be.
Its like two other Aloe's I bought in 3" pots in front of my home...they keep getting larger. One has yellow blooms,the other has nice color to the leafs..but no bloom so far. I bought those two at the same time.
Continuing to color up in its first summer of adult foliage. I wonder if it will get red? Then again A.rupestris seedlings were a fiery orange. Once adult,that never comes close to that again.
Its color has deepend and I notice light spots on the leaves. Interesting that when I uppotted it,I could still see old distichous leaves bases from 2 years ago on 2" of stem.
Three years have gone by...not a single bloom. This is my second long term ground Aloe that refuses to bloom. My tentative ID of that is Aloe cryptopoda. Its at least 4 probably 5 years old in ground the whole time and plenty large. No blooms.
