Aloe rupestris
Baker
XanthorrhoeaceaeLeaves
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves - potash
The leaves are processed to produce potash.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Mozambique, Siswati, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A small tree. It grows 8 m tall. The stem is 20 cm across. The leaves are in a compact ring at the top of the plant. The leaves are 70 cm long by 7-10 cm wide.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Aloe rupestris (known as the bottlebrush aloe) is an arborescent aloe indigenous to summer-rainfall areas of southern Africa.
Notes
Also put in the family Asphodelaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Aloe nitens Baker
References (2)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 31
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
