Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera Linn.) Including wild plants in a temperate place hot pots or planted people in the house and yard as an ornamental plant. Numerous in North Africa, West Indies.
Aloe Vera Plants short-trunked. The trunk is not visible as it is covered by dense leaves and partially buried in the soil. Through this bar will appear next shoots that make the chicks. Stem pieces Aloe Vera is also used to reproduce the plant.
Aloe Vera plant leaf-shaped ribbon with an elongated strand. Fleshy leaves are thick, not reinforced, grayish green, succulent nature (many containing water) and many contain latex or mucus (gel) as raw materials. Aloe vera plants resistant to drought because many stored in the leaves of water reserves that can be used at the time of water shortage. Leaf shape resembles a sword with a pointed tip, leaf surface covered with wax, with weak spines at the edges. The length of leaves can reach 50-75 cm, weighing 0.5 kg - 1 kg, leaf tightly coiled around the stem.
Aloe Vera-stemmed flowers Flowers 60-90 cm long, yellow or reddish in the form of pipes that collects and out of the armpit leaves. Aloe Vera plant roots form root fibers are short and located at ground level. Root length ranges from 50-100 cm. To grow plants that require fertile soil and loose at the top.