A group of Aloes with a solitary rosette and without a stem. These plant do not create offsets or produce just a few offsets at maturity.
This perennial, stemless and generally solitary succulent native to Zimbabwe is a large and showy outdoor plant in frost-free zones. Be sure give this attractive aloe with its yellow to reddish orange flowers a place in your garden. A distinctive South African species grown partly for its ornamental spiny foliage, partly because of its colorful flowers and partly due to its far greater than average cold tolerance. Read more about Aloe aculeata
Aloe broomii (Snake Aloe) is a common and attractive aloe. It is a robust, short-stemmed, evergreen succulent forming a large, dense rosette of light green leaves, 1 ft. long (30 cm) that has the form and shape of an agave. Read more about Aloe broomii
Aloe buhrii (Elias Buhr's Aloe) is a wonderful landscape plant from South Africa with toothless, soft, rubbery, mildly spotted leaves and winter flowers of orange, yellow or red. Read more about Aloe buhrii
Aloe capitata var. quartziticola is a decorative stemless aloe from Madagascar that is stunning when in bloom. This Aloe forms a beautiful open rosette of fleshy, tapered, gray-green leaves, up to 18 in. long (45 cm). Read more about Aloe capitata var. quartziticola
Aloe chabaudii (Dwala Aloe) is an easy-to-grow, clustering perennial succulent that forms large colonies of gently spreading, turquoise green rosettes. It is a robust, attractive, generally stemless, fast growing aloe with very showy flowers in winter. Read more about Aloe chabaudii
Aloe conifera is a wonderfully attractive deep turquoise small stemless non-suckering species with tight, corn-cob-shaped bright yellow flowers in winter. It is a relatively small to mid-sized aloe from Madagascar which even as a seedling is a splendid sight, with its intense strap-like blue-green leaves, which become red-violet in the sun. Read more about Aloe conifera
Aloe esculenta is a gorgeous, large growing aloe from Angola with a tight, upright rosette with wavy, graceful, and heavily spotted leaves. This Aloe grows to about 2' to 2.5' and has very tall inflorescences, on occasion towering 6 feet over the plant, that bear pink flowers with yellow lobes. Read more about Aloe esculenta
Aloe globuligemma is a solitary, stemless Aloe native from Zimbabwe and Botswana to the Northern Province of South Africa with a dense, usually stemless, rosettes of bluish leaves and large, showy blooms of rose and cream colored flowers. It is a medium sized plant about 18 - 24 inches tall. Read more about Aloe globuligemma
Native to Namibia, Aloe hereroensis is an attractive 'medium-small' glaucous, pale blue-green aloe, usually solitary or with only a few rosettes in a clump that has 'fat', upward curving leaves with white linear flecking. Read more about Aloe hereroensis
Aloe lavranosii is a solitary or occasionally offsetting Arabian aloe Aloe from southern Yemen with broad, bluish-purplish leaves and a branched inflorescence with unusual, green or red flowers that are densely covered in white hairs. Read more about Aloe lavranosii
Aloe microstigma is a very attractive and relatively common South African species with lots of speckles of leaves and wonderful leaf as well as flower colors. One of the most floriferous Aloes in South Africa, Aloe microstigma is a medium size, easy, relatively fast growing plant, tolerating summer watering and some shade, as well as poor soils. Read more about Aloe microstigma
Aloe peglerae is an unusual, small, stemless South African aloe. Stunningly attractive turquoise colored aloe easily identified by the lack of spines on the inside surfaces of each leaf. This aloe grows as a solitary rosette with the leaves curving inwards, resulting in a neat, rounded head or rarely form small groups. Aloe peglerae has unbranched inflorescence with densely set, dull red flowers that usually turn greenish yellow when opening. Read more about Aloe peglerae
Aloe petricola is solitary, stemless, growing to 2 feet high (60 cm) and up to 3 feet (90 cm) wide which is native to the east transvaal in South Africa. This Aloe has thick, stiff, non-bending pale blue-green leaves with sharp, widely spaced small reddish marginal teeth and an overall ball-like, rounded form. Read more about Aloe petricola
Aloe reitzii is a rather rare species of stemless Aloe which is summer blooming and endemic to South Africa’s grassland area of Mpumalanga. This beautiful robust stemless plant usually has a single rosette 3 feet tall. This aloe produces handsome cylindrical racemes of dark red to orange-red flowers and has long relatively broad silvery blue-green leaves with reddish teeth along the margins. Read more about Aloe reitzii
Aloe reynoldsii is a rare aloe with smooth, spineless leaves and a short stem, only found on south-facing cliffs along the Mbashe River in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Grows up to 2 feet tall with leaves that are a pale green color with white spots on both the upper and lower surfaces and leaf margins. This species superficially resembles Aloe striata. Read more about Aloe reynoldsii
Aloe scobinifolia is a small, stemless Aloe from Somalia with rough (sort of like shark skin), upright and unbendable, toothless leaves of a dull, pale olive-green. Read more about Aloe scobinifolia
Aloe secundiflora is widespread in the open grassland and bushland in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania. This attractive, stemless Aloe forms a large rosette of broad, glossy, spear-shaped leaves with brown teeth along the margins that look bronze in full sun. Read more about Aloe secundiflora
Aloe spicata is an impressive looking, fast-growing, plant with big graceful curving leaves. It's a South African native that grows on a trunk as a shrub to 4 to 6 feet tall and can be solitary but more often clusters. This sounds a lot like many other tree aloes, but Aloe spicata is branching which sets it apart. Read more about Aloe spicata
Aloe striata subspecies karasbergensis is well known for its attractive rusty brown to bronze, leaf color, as well as beautiful and charismatic symmetrical leaf crowns. This low-growing, rosette-forming succulent grows to 2-3 feet tall by as wide with interesting pale gray glaucous leaves leaves and essentially no marginal teeth. Read more about Aloe striata subsp. karasbergensis
Aloe striata, with the common name 'Coral Aloe', is a small, stemless South African Aloe species. Aloe striata is a beautiful succulent up to 18 inches (45 cm) tall and up to 2 feet (60 cm) wide, with rosettes of a few flat, broad, pale gray-green leaves that vary in color depending on the amount of sunlight. Read more about Aloe striata
Native to Yemen, the unusual Aloe tomentosa is the most densely woolly of the several hairy aloe species that grow in the vicinity of the Red Sea. It produces numerous 3 foot tall multi-branching flower spikes topped with pyramidal clusters of tomentose sea-green blooms. This is a large, stemless, solitary plant that forms a single rosette to 2 feet tall by 4 feet wide with pale green leaves and is probably hardier than most would assume since it grows above 2500 meters (8000+ feet). Read more about Aloe tomentosa
These Aloes hail from Saudi Arabia and Yemen and endure Arizona heat as well as Aloe vera. This is an very common aloe in it's native habitat, where it typically grows as a stemless, solitary upright pale green to pale blue-green plant with thick, short leaves. Read more about Aloe vacillans
This plant is one of the most beautiful and showy of the South African species of Aloe. Aloe wickensii has solitary, stemless rosettes densely packed with upright, curved smooth turquoisey-grey leaves with small sharp reddish-brown spines along the margins. A very attractive and unique Aloe with spectacular display of bi-colored blooms when in full flower. Read more about Aloe wickensii