Hail to Erik the Red (the aloe, that is)

Erik the Red was a Norwegian Viking who established the showtime Norse village inward Greenland inward 982 in addition to fathered Leif Erikson, reputed to live on the showtime European to bring discovered North America. Erik was nicknamed "the Red" because of his pilus in addition to beard. But equally impressive they powerfulness bring been, I'm certain they paled inward comparing to this Erik the Red:


This is Aloe 'Erik the Red' inward amount flower. It has shown impressive increment always since I planted it inward March 2014 from a #5 can. In the wintertime of 2014/15 it had i bloom stalk, final yr two, in addition to this yr three.  

But it's non simply the elegant shape of the bloom heads that makes passers-by stop. It's the color. The flowers are red. No, RED! It's the reddest aloe past times far inward our garden.



Aloe 'Erik the Red' is i of the many aloes hybrids created past times Leo Thamm at Sunbird Aloes inward South Africa. Only a few of them are available inward the U.S., including 'Erik the Red', 'Moonglow' in addition to 'Always Red'. For years I've been wishing to a greater extent than Sunbird hybrids would live on introduced but evidently the procedure of importing novel plants into the U.S. of A. is studded alongside bureaucratic hurdles.

The exact parentage of 'Erik the Red' is a closely kept secret. All the Sunbird Aloes spider web site reveals is this:
Created equally a hitting characteristic plant, its unloose was eagerly awaited past times all who bring seen it inward flower. With tall, blood ruby-red inflorescences towering over nearby plants of like size, this tall stemmed beauty (as tall equally a man) is indeed a focal betoken inward whatever aloe planting. The leaves are dark-green alongside a prominent spiny edge, a plumbing equipment foil for the glowing color of the flowers. Even the smallest buds are deep ruby-red inward color in addition to seeing that they are non covered past times leafy bracts they denote the arrival of something especial long earlier the showtime flowers genuinely open. [...]
Erik the Red flowers inward belatedly winter. It is named later the breeder's eldest boy alongside whom it shares its tall stature.

So it's non named later the Viking explorer later all.

San Marcos Growers says it's "a complex hybrid involving Aloe mawii, which contributed its nighttime ruby-red color, combined alongside A. petricola, A. marlothii (red form) in addition to A. arborescens."

Whatever it is, it certain is a stunner.


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