They dribble nectar, attracting honey bees and birds into the garden, bringing life in the middle of winter. It's adaptable to a range of soils and it doesn't mind frost. Aloe chabaudii is another species that adapts well to a variety of soils and climates.
It makes an excellent ground cover, grows best in a sunny position and makes a long lasting cut flower. Aloe ferox is a perfect plant for growing in containers. Even when the flowers are starting to finish, the plant is attractive, particularly to native honey bees.
The leaves produce a really bitter yellow sap, which is used as a traditional cure for nail biting. Another fabulous aloe is a hybrid called Aloe x winteri.
It has orange flowers, but this particular variety has a beautiful lemon yellow flowers. It has a dense, branching, upright habit which makes it really suitable for hedging. Aloes like plenty of sunshine and excellent drainage. It can be difficult growing them in clay soils in the ground.
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Aloe is drought tolerant; only water your plant when the top inch of soil is dry to the touch. When you do water, water it well, but never let your plant sit in water.
Aloe can be grown in any well-drained quality potting media and should be repotted as needed to refresh the media or to give the plant room to grow. First, they wanted to determine the likely ancestral home of Aloe vera based on the location of its closest relatives.
Second, they asked if the global dominance of Aloe vera can be explained either by its evolutionary distinctiveness from other Aloe species or by historical factors, such as having evolved nearby to early human trade routes. Their results, published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology , provide the clearest answers yet to these mysteries.
Based on strongly supported evolutionary relationships with morphologically similar species, the new research suggests that Aloe vera originated in the Arabian peninsula. Notably, this is right on the northernmost extreme of the natural range of aloes, where conditions are extremely hot and dry. Aloes in this region are characterised by leathery leaves that protect the water storing leaf mesophyll.
So does the evolutionary distinctiveness of aloes in this region suggest some atypical property of Aloe vera that led to its medicinal use by humans? Perhaps not. Aloe vera itself does not appear to be especially evolutionarily distinct from other aloes; it is closely related to a number of other species native to the Arabian peninsula.
Notably, none of these other species are used for medicinal purposes.
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