Re: another mystery plant (succulent)

Yes, A. suprafoliata occurred to me as one parent or possibility. But there are hundreds of unknown hybrids and now just as many known and named. I have been urging Rudi Schulz to write a book about them - 3 books would probably cover garden hybrids, dwarf and min hybrids, and the larger landscape hybdrids. BUT he's writing a new book about Agave hybrids instead!

 

trevor nottle



On Wed 03/03/10 6:07 PM , david feix davidfeix@yahoo.com sent:

I suspect it is a hybrid or complex hybrid that contains Aloe arborescens as one parent. I've seen several photos of A. arborescens hybrids that have equally long and multiple bloom spikes; try looking up A. arborescens x A. suprafoliata, as well as A. x spinossimus. Unfortunately, neither of these appear to be a perfect match for your plant, but they give you a better idea of why I think it is a hybrid with A. arborescens in the mix.

It often seems that Aloe hybrids can have benefits of hybrid vigor with extra quantities of blooms if the marriage is a happy one; I suppose there is also the possibility of hybrids that only a parent could love.

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> Subject: another mystery plant (succulent)
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 5:36 PM
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> http://www.fallbrookgardenclub.org/orangeflowersucculent.htm
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