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Aloe africana, aka African aloe or spiny aloe
in English and uitenhaagsaalwyn in Afrikaans, has a stem up to 6' tall
and occasionally taller, topped by a dense rosette of firm, spreading
to recurved lance-linear leaves which are gray-green in color and marginally
armed with reddish teeth. It is restricted to the Eastern Cape province
of South Africa, particularly common in thicket and renosterveld vegetation
around Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage. The inflorescences can be either
single or branched into several tapering racemes of curved tubular yellow
flowers. It blooms from July to September. It grows in proximity of
and may hybridize with Aloe ferox, A. pluridens and A.
speciosa.
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