Aloe growth rate

[Tony R]

Compare with https://worldofsucculents.com/gasteralo ... -highness/. This is something that is propagated in quantity in at least one Dutch Nursery.

I am straying off-topic a bit here but, for what it is worth, when I have seen such plants there, I don't think the all the plants in some nurseries in The Netherlands, so labelled, are the x Gasterworthia 'Royal Highness' as described by Rowley NCSJ 1957, 12 (4), 74. Some look very much like x Gasteraloe rather than
x Gasterhaworthia.

The plants below in my collection today originated from vegetative material first distributed by Rowley from plants received from the introducer Howard Gates from California in the 1950s are what I consider to be the true article. The amount of tubercles and leaf colour are quite distinctive.

Maybe a lot can happen in the intervening 65 years, particularly in the nursery trade?

[Colin Walker]

Compare with https://worldofsucculents.com/gasteralo ... -highness/. This is something that is propagated in quantity in at least one Dutch Nursery.

I am straying off-topic a bit here but, for what it is worth, when I have seen such plants there, I don't think the all the plants in some nurseries in The Netherlands, so labelled, are the x Gasterworthia 'Royal Highness' as described by Rowley NCSJ 1957, 12 (4), 74. Some look very much like x Gasteraloe rather than
x Gasterhaworthia.

The plants below in my collection today originated from vegetative material first distributed by Rowley from plants received from the introducer Howard Gates from California in the 1950s are what I consider to be the true article. The amount of tubercles and leaf colour are quite distinctive.

Maybe a lot can happen in the intervening 65 years, particularly in the nursery trade?

Tony, your plants certainly look like Gasteria x Haworthiopsis cross, which incidentally I think now needs a new nothogeneric name.

[Terry S.]

I now agree with you Tony. The plant depicted in my hyperlink was almost certainly not 'Royal Highness' as claimed.

Now there's an opportunity, get your name behind a new nothogenus, no type specimens needed.

[Phil_SK]

https://www.ipni.org/n/77152975-1

[Tony R]

Indeed, I was just about to reply that Gordon beat me to it by some six years.
Bless Gordon Rowley RIP.

[esp]

I feel Gasworthiopsis may catch on even more slowly than Haworthiopsis.

[Jim_Mercer]

Is this Royal Highness?

[Jim_Mercer]

An old description