Are you looking to add some red color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 9 single-head-tree Aloes that are good candidates.
Aloe 'Erik the Red' is a sensational large aloe hybrid produced by Leo Thamm of Sunbird Aloes in South Africa with blood red flowers in winter, long dark green leaves and prominent whitish-green marginal teeth. A midsized Aloe to 6 feet tall or more with its stem topped by a rosette to about 2 feet wide and amazingly long-lasting bloom spikes. read more
Aloe excelsa is a single stemmed tree-like aloe, occurring on granite outcrops, or on steep rocky slopes, which can grow to 10-20 feet (2 - 6 m) tall. Also known as the Zimbabwe Aloe it has a solitary large rosette of succulent dull green leaves with red-brown sharp teeth on leaf margins and undersides. read more
Native to the Northern Cape of South Africa, Aloe khamiesensis will slowly reach a height of 3 m (10 feet) and are usually single-stemmed with only one rosette. The long and relatively narrow, pale green leaves curve upwards from the base and outward at their tips giving this Aloe a graceful appearance. read more
Aloe marlothii, native to South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, and Mozambique, is one of the larger and more impressive Aloes. It is single-stemmed, and can grow up to a tree-like 15 feet tall. This striking species of aloe has an especially large robust head of stiff, grey-green leaves. The mountain aloe is without doubt one of southern Africa's most rewarding aloes to grow and adds an interesting slant to aloe culture. read more
Aloe pluridens, also known as the French Aloe, is a very attractive, slender tree aloe which bears gracefully backwards-bending leaves in large spiraled rosettes from South Africa. This aloe is well suited to coastal gardens, is usually single-stemmed and tall with specimens in habitat occasionally reaching 15 feet or more. read more
Aloe sabaea is a solitary tree aloe from Yemen, where it grows up to about 12 feet tall. This graceful looking aloe has a solitary trunk topped with a side-facing rosette of long pale green leaves that drape toward the ground. read more
Aloe speciosa is a generally single-stemmed, tall succulent growing up to 10 feet (3 m) that carries its massive rosettes of leaves at a tilt off to one side. The Tilt-head Aloe is a handsome tree-like succulent having decorative blue-green leaves with deep pink to pale red, serrated leaf margins, and dense cylindrical flower heads of red buds, opening greenish white in spring-summer. read more
Aloe vaombe, the 'Malagasy Tree Aloe' is one of the most beautiful large tree aloes, making a stunning centerpiece specimen for a garden. It is a large unbranched tree aloe to 12 feet tall or more with large solitary rosettes up to 5 feet across of recurved, pale green leaves that have whitish teeth. Mature plants produce spectacular orange-red flowers in the winter. read more
Perhaps the most handsome Aloe, this solitary, non-branching Madagascan tree aloe is set apart primarily by its unique flowers on long, tapering, bendable leaves. The channeled glaucous leaves tend to grow straight out or down, and then curl inward at the ends much like an Octopus. read more
