The UC Davis campus has quite a few aloe plantings that I similar to maintain an optic on. These are non inwards the
Arboretum but rather on the top dog campus together with thus students walk past times them every day.
Last year, the peak of the bloom was inwards
early February. Overall, it was a real expert yr for flowers.
This yr we're several weeks behind schedule because of the long periods of pelting together with the attendant lack of sunshine. In addition, approximately species, almost notably
Aloe hereroensis, were ready dorsum both past times frost together with an excess of rain. I don't intend whatsoever of the
Aloe hereroensis on campus volition bloom ordinarily this year; merely similar mine, their flowers sustained heavy frost damage.
Let's firstly at the
Botanical Conservatory greenhouses on Kleiber Hall Drive:
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Aloe ferox hyb rid (left), Aloe arborescens and many more |
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Aloe ferox (left), yellow-flowering cast of Aloe arborescens |
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Not an aloe, but pretty: Euphorbia atropurpurea |
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Aloe microstigma |
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Aloe microstigma |
From the Botanical Conservatory I walked over to Storer Hall. Growing betwixt ii junipers is this
Aloe arborescens:
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Aloe arborescens |
In forepart of Storer Hall is the UC Davis Cycad Garden. The African cycads are interplanted amongst many dissimilar aloes.
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Not quite there: Gonialoe variegata, formerly known every bit Aloe variegata. The partridge pectus aloe is real mutual inwards tillage but it's ever been challenging for me. I must receive got lost a handful over the years due to rot (even when watering solely sparingly). |
In the adjacent photo, await for a fallen giant. Hint: the roots are close the blueish cycad inwards the lower left. This is an
Aloe marlothii hybrid that 1 time stood 10 ft. tall together with toppled over inwards Jan every bit a lawsuit of the excessive pelting that caused the soil to soften.
What's interesting hither is that the flowers receive got continued to prepare together with are at nowadays facing instantly upwardly again--a 90° plough from where they were when the aloe brutal over!
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Aloe ferox with Encephalartos horridus |
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Aloe melanacantha |
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Aloe melanacantha |
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Fallen Aloe africana, mirroring what happened to the large Aloe marlothii above |
Here's a fiddling
Gasteria interlude. Gasterias are closely related to aloes--so close, inwards fact, that they're able to interbreed. Quite a few intergeneric hybrids exist. They're called ×
Gasteraloe or ×
Gastrolea. 'Green Ice' together with 'Lizard Tail' are in all likelihood the best known.
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Gasteria sp. |
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Gasteria acinacifolia |
The genus name
Gasteria comes from the Latin give-and-take "gaster" (stomach). This is a reference to the flowers, which are vaguely stomach-shaped:
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Aloe marlothii (left), Aloe ferox (right) |
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Aloe marlothii |
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Aloe marlothii |
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Aloe ×spinosissima |
Walking dorsum to the Botanical Conservatory where I had parked, I noticed a novel planting at the western border of the parking lot. I can't hold back to run across what this surface area volition await similar inwards a yr or two.
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Aloe ferox |
Near where I had parked I spotted this pickup truck amongst a bunch of cactus stems inwards the trunk:
I receive got no consider what the even out is there, but I'm hoping they're going to constitute them somewhere on campus.
Note: These photos were taken on Saturday, Feb eighteen (overcast) together with Sunday, Feb 26 (sunny). Sumber http://www.succulentsandmore.com/