Aloe

Thanks Jemma. Hopefully I'll have some interesing ones...

You're most welcome, Jemma ! I hope you get the right ID. I also hope you will be able to help me one day - and it's coming soon....fungi time almost upon us here and much as I love them, the identification frustrates me. :)

Hi Jemma, thanks for the response. I have checked Ruth Bancroft Gardens' website- they appear to have several species of cacti - Aloe is one of them. In fact, they have two species - Aloe burgersfortensis (native to S.Africa) and Aloe cameronii (native to Zimbabwe) with flowers similar to those in two of your spottings I hope the link here helps http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.org/rbgarden/pages/plants.html - you might recognise some of the plants. Ruth Bankroft Gardens might have Kniphofia sp ( redhot poker) which belongs to an entirely different family Xanthorrhoeaceae - not a succulent but this spotting is not it. It is definitely a species of Aloe. You might find other spottings on Project Noah. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8639601 http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19488331 There are many types of Aloes and since your spottings were from a botanical garden, they could be cultivars. Aloes are native to Africa. I hope all this is helpful.

As red hot poker has two tones of colors which the top usually has bolder color, and the lower part has paler tone .Other than that the tubular flowers of Aloe seem to be less in number than Red hor poker denser, and look uniformly arranged.

But the full picture of this plant showed better know which Aloe family?

Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink or red while Kniphofia flowers in shades of red, orange and yellow, often bicoloured.

Jemma, you've again got the same issue here - Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia) or Aloe ? Could we please request that all photos of flowers for identification be accompanied with photos of the whole plant for more information about plant characteristics. I personally think this one is an Aloe -need more information, please for correct identification.

flowers of Aloe species