Aloe buettneri A.Berger

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asphodelaceae > Aloe

Characteristics

A succulent herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are thick and fleshy and they are arranged in a ring. The leaves are 40-80 cm long and 8-9 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge.
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After the bush fires destroy the mature leaves the plant passes the dry season with the leaf-bases partly burned and with only the central leaf-tips exposed
A rosette of fleshy leaves up to 2 ft. long and 5 in. broad at base, margins sharply toothed
Perianth varied in colour.
A perennial herb
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in savannah. It suits warm dry areas. It grows between 250-900 m above sea level.
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Grassy places in moist savannah. Grassland and woodland at elevations from 250-900 metres.
In grassy places in the moister savanna areas
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use medicinal poison social use
Edible leaves rhizomes roots
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Cultivation

It can be grown from offsets, stem cuttings or leaf cuttings. It can also be grown from seed.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity light
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Images

Aloe buettneri unspecified picture

Distribution

Aloe buettneri world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Chad, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:529285-1
WFO ID wfo-0000757964
COL ID C3FZ
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Aloe agavefolia Aloe buettneri Aloe congolensis Aloe paludicola Aloe paedogona