Aloe viguieri

Aloeaceae

This plant is indigenous to Toliara, Madagascar

12-18"

2-3'

25 to 30°F; -3.9 to -1.1°C

Very high heat tolerance

Full sun along the coast to some shade inland.

Drought tolerant, keep dry in winter when it is dormant.

Remove spent flower spikes as desired.

Excellent drought tolerant small-scale aloe with a color more like some white dudleyas. It makes an attractive contrasting plant in rock gardens, succulent and cactus gardens and is useful in xeriscape plantings as well. Also works well as a succulent container plant.

Seeds can be collected from dried seed pods. Small offsets can be removed and replanted.

Requires very good drainage.

This is a small aloe that forms a single rosette of blue-green blushed white leaves that eventually form a slender stem to 3 feet. It has gray-green, nearly glaucous leaves that are triangular in shape with tiny teeth along the leaf margins. It grows in spring and summer and remains dormant in winter. Older plants bloom in spring to summer with many branched racemes. The peach-orange colored flowers come when the plant is more mature. This aloe needs protection from hard frosts and requires very good drainage in cool weather weather.