With its icy bluish leaves, Aloe suprafoliata is a striking landscape plant, every bit seen hither at UC Davis:
The biggest works life had its roots trimmed too volition exceed dorsum inwards a pot. I'm looking forrard to having but 1 works life showing off that beautiful stacked leafage look.
This delineate was a brilliant reminder of how tardily it is to propagate many succulents. If I were a works life seller, I'd hold out really happy to direct hold turned 1 works life into 19! Sumber http://www.succulentsandmore.com/
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| Four Aloe suprafoliata at the UC Davis (the flowering aloe amongst bluish leaves) |
What attracts virtually people to this aloe species, however, is its juvenile form:
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| Juvenile Aloe suprafoliata at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory |
Its botanical name, suprafoliata, genuinely way “leaves stacked on top of each other.” The mutual refer inwards Afrikaans is boekaalwyn, literally “book aloe.” It’s tardily to come across why: the stacked leaves of a juvenile works life resemble the pages of an opened upwardly book. As the works life matures, the leaves swivel into the rosette you lot come across inwards the outset photo.
My ain Aloe suprafoliata came from the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. I can't cry upwardly when I bought it, but it must direct hold been unopen to 2013. It was tiny—in a 3-inch pot—but past times August 2015 it had grown into a beautiful specimen:
Fast forrard 2+ years to Oct 2017. What you lot come across directly is a tangled mess:
The leafage color has changed a niggling every bit well; it's to a greater extent than greenish directly although that mightiness hold out because it doesn't larn total sun.
In its native habitat, Aloe suprafoliata is typically solitary. However, many forms inwards tillage sucker, some (like mine) prodigiously. The argue is simple: Solitary plants are harder to propagate because you lot direct hold to grow them from seed. Suckering forms, on the other hand, are the gift that keeps on giving, too it's tardily to portion offsets amongst others. As a result, suckering demeanour that is uncommon inwards the wild eventually becomes the norm inwards cultivation.
I've been pregnant to accept my Aloe suprafoliata clump apart for quite a while, too yesterday I in conclusion did.
This is what I establish when I took it out of the pot (photo on the left). I had genuinely expected a denser whorl of roots at the bottom. After I shook off the soil too untangled the roots, I ended upwardly amongst what you lot come across on the right:
Separating the clump wasn't encephalon surgery. H5N1 niggling tugging too pulling was all it took. I ended upwardly amongst the woman raise works life sporting an impressive mess of roots...
...and xviii smaller ones:
I potted upwardly the 5 biggest offsets to break (Dan too Brian, 2 are yours)...
...and stuck the smaller ones into an unused vegetable bed which has exceed a makeshift growing area. There they bring together an Agave colorata I've been stress-testing every bit good every bit 3 ×Mangave 'Macho Mocha' offsets waiting for a novel home:
The biggest works life had its roots trimmed too volition exceed dorsum inwards a pot. I'm looking forrard to having but 1 works life showing off that beautiful stacked leafage look.
This delineate was a brilliant reminder of how tardily it is to propagate many succulents. If I were a works life seller, I'd hold out really happy to direct hold turned 1 works life into 19! Sumber http://www.succulentsandmore.com/