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Help with ID Please

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:06 pm
by Duns
Can anyone help with the ID of the plant shown below. Received as a present from my neighbour - she got it in the local fruit shop!!!

Many thanks in anticipation

Re: Help with ID Please

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:17 pm
by habanerocat
Have a google for Aloe jucunda and see if it matches up.

I'm no expert.......

Re: Help with ID Please

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 7:22 pm
by Duns
Hi Habanerocat,

Thanks for the reply - having googled Aloe jucunda I do see strong similarities, though in the pictures I have seen, the spines appear red - mine are white. Could this just be an age effect as this is a young plant?

Re: Help with ID Please

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:23 am
by Liz M
I think you may find this is Aloe juvenna, this is a young one but which has long extended growth when it gets older and is columnar. Aloe jucunda is a clumping flat rosette.

Re: Help with ID Please

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:10 am
by D^L
I think I agree with Liz: A. juvenna. A bit more growing may confirm it.
Cheers
David Lambie
Bristol

Re: Help with ID Please

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:29 pm
by Duns
Many thanks Liz and David

I will hold back on my label just yet (that's a saving!!!)

John