Buying Aloe Vera For Health

The Aloe Vera at Home

In its homeland, these succulents bloom every year. At the top of the escape is formed stems (up to 80 cm), at the end of which a bright red, orange, yellow or rarely white flowers (1 cm in diameter and a length of 3,5-5 cm) collected in racemes or spicate inflorescences. In the culture room in bloom is extremely rare. Very few people had the opportunity to witness this unique event. Probably why they called these aloe plants – they bloom only once in 100 years. Aloe is a common and widely cultivated plant. These plants are hardy, good breeders; their juice has a disinfecting action (in some sense a recognized home “doctor”).

If applied to cuts to the surface of plant leaves, it will quickly heal the wound. This property Aloe excels’s in. In nature, these plants reach a height of 3 m. It grows in the form of shrubs with erect branched stems. The leaves are thick, fleshy, alternate, sessile, narrow lancelets, the edges of thorny-toothed, bluish-gray color. Peduncles high (80 cm), flowers are bright red length of about 4 cm. In recent years, from Holland, were widely distributed saplings of other species of aloe. This is particularly frightening Aloe with dark green leaves, with both sides lined coarse spines.

Most offer aloe striped with blue and blue-gray leaves and numerous bars along the parallel veins. The seemingly diminutive size of these plants is deceptive: a few years they will turn into huge bushes with leaves up to 0.5 m in length. In addition to tree-like aloes in room culture are widely distributed plants of small size (up to 30 cm) with a very short stem, which form rosettes of leaves. They have triangular lancelets, finely Spinoza at the edges, painted in a nice rich green color with white stripes. This Aloe is motley in color. Another type-Aloe schetinonosnoe is more like hovortsiyu than typical aloe. The tips of the leaves pulled in a transparent bristles, for which the plant and has received the epithet of the species. And the entire lower leaf surface is covered with small papillae.

The stem is very short, so the leaves form a fairly dense rosette. This is a kind of capricious and bad breed. Occasionally cultivated Aloe ciliate – a groundling with unusually flat (for aloe Vera) leaves and long stem. At the base of leaf stalk cover plate markedly and, indeed, covered with long ciliate hairs. In Europe, some fans tend to collect only succulents like aloe; one really can make a vast collection. In Russia, unusual kinds of aloes are always in demand. Aloe Vera in Latin means “true aloe. The effectiveness of this plant, or rather, the effectiveness of its healing properties has been proven over and over for thousands of years.

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