Aloe vanbalenii
Pillans
Van Balen's aloe
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Description
A low-growing succulent shrub forming clumps. It is a subtropical aloe with edible heart, growing tip, leaves, and fruit.
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Edible Uses
The heart, growing tip, leaves, and fruit are edible.
Distribution
It is a subtropical plant.
Where It Grows
Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Notes
Also put in the family Aloaceae. Also put in the family Asphodelaceae.
Also Known As
Lihala
References (5)
- Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
- Ogle & Grivetti, 1985,
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 10
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 31
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
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