Aloe ecklonis
Salm-Dyck
Ecklon's Aloe
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Description
A succulent plant. This aloe has broad leaves with white teeth along the edge. It forms clumps. It grows 50 cm tall. The leaves are in a ring. It produces a large number of flowering shoots. The flowers can be yellow, orange or red.
Edible Uses
Both the leaves and flowers are cooked and used as vegetables.
Traditional Uses
The flowers are cooked and used as a vegetable. The leaves are cooked as a vegetable.
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Distribution
It is a subtropical plant. It can grow in arid places.
Where It Grows
Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Notes
Also put in the family Aloaceae. Also put in the family Asphodelaceae.
Synonyms
Also Known As
Lisheshelu
References (9)
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 255
- Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
- Ogle & Grivetti, 1985, (As Aloe hlangapies)
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 9 (As Aloe hlangapies)
- Plowes, N. J. & Taylor, F. W., 1997, The Processing of Indigenous Fruits and other Wildfoods of Southern Africa. in Smartt, L. & Haq. (Eds) Domestication, Production and Utilization of New Crops. ICUC p 185
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 24th March 2011]
- 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
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
