The flowers are quite special,, and the hybrid varieties can be spectacular.

That’s true! Aloes are also great for your skin, especially the liquid inside the leaves. That’s why Aloe vera is the most widely known. We actualy have one in our flower pot and once in a while my wife cuts a small piece of it.

The small piece cuts in half and she uses the liquid inside the leaves for her skin. Mostly face skin. Aloes’s leaves are very common ingredient in face creams and overall creams.

Aloe is also use as a medication for weight loss, diabetes, hepatitis... People apply aloe gel to the skin for acne, an inflammatory skin condition. There are so many health benefits of Aloe flower, we could write multiple pages to get to know all of them.

Aloes have the fantastic additional attraction of making an enormous and breathtaking variety of beautiful and fascinating flowers. It’s flowers vary tremendously in size, shape, color and seasonal occurence.

Aloe Pink

Aloe Striata

They come in a variety of shades of blue, green, grey, purple, red etc. and a nearly equal variety of shapes. They vary in size from barely 1" tall to over 40' tall and nearly as wide.

Aloe Vera

However, if they never flowered they would still be extremely popular plants for gardeners, collectors, landscapers and public gardens.

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