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Aloe arborescens

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae > Genus: Aloe

Aloe arborescens Aloe arborescens

Aloe arborescens, Upper Muvumodzi Valley, Chimanimani Mountains, Mozambique. [photo Stefaan Dondeyne ©, Flora of Mozambique]

Aloe arborescens 'Jack Marais' under cultivation in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Aloe arborescens Aloe arborescens

A male Greater double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris afer) pollinating Aloe arborescens on the Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

A male Southern double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus) taking nectar from an Aloe arborescens flower at Kirstenbosch on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Aloe arborescens Aloe arborescens

Aloe arborescens, Ndundu Lodge, Vumba, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]

Aloe arborescens, Buffelskloof Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa. [photo John E. Burrows ©]

Aloe arborescens Aloe arborescens

A female Greater double-collared sunbird (Cynnyris afer) taking nectar from and pollinating Aloe arborescens in flower in early summer at Lotheni in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©

A male Amethyst sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) taking nectar from and pollinating Aloe arborescens in flower in early summer at Lotheni in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©

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Publications

  • Van der Bank, F.H. & Van Wyk, B.-E. 1996. Biochemical genetic markers to identify hybrids between Aloe arborescens and A. ferox (Aloaceae). South African Journal of Botany 62: 328–331.