Aloe peglerae Habitat: Grows naturally in sunny well-drained conditions on high stony mountains and hills on rocky, exposed northern slopes in the summer rainfall area receiving 625 to 750 mm. Plants hardly protrude above the dense grasses with which it is often associated. The flowers are apparently pollinated by birds, bees and wind.
Rosette: It forms a compact, almost spherical perfect rosette with overlapping leaves reaching only 300-400 mm in diameter, and 300-400 mm in height.
Stems: Very short or absent.
Leaves: About 30, fleshy, very stiff, chubby, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, triangular, arcuate, strongly convex on the inner, glaucous, greyish-green or reddish-green with a particularly rough surface with pronounced papillae, without spots and sharp-tipped. The leaf margins of new growth have whitish spines as opposed to the reddish brown spines on older leaves. The backs of the leaves have spines on the medial line near the leaf tip. Outer leaves 12 cm long, 3 cm broad and 9 mm thick in the middle. As the temperatures drop, the colours of the leaves tend to pinken as is the case in many aloes and other succulents.
Inflorescence: Often has a single cylindrical flower stalk 300-400 mm tall, occasionally forked.
Flowers: The flower buds are dull red with deep-red, almost black filament protruding from the flower tube that give the flowers a characteristic appearance.
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