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Aloe bakeri
Place ideally in full sun or partial shade.
Always water a few days after the substrate has dried out. Reduce watering in winter.
It can tolerate -1.1 °C in the short term. However, the plant is not hardy.
The epithet 'bakeri' refers to the botanist John Gilbert Baker, who lived from 1834 to 1920 and worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens in England.
Aloe bakeri is sometimes referred to as Baker Aloe, Dwarf Aloe or Guillauminia bakeri. The name bakeri refers to John Gilbert Baker. He was an English botanist who worked in the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens at the turn of the 19th century. It is native to the southeast of Madagascar, where it grows in the Taolagnaro region on rocky hills at low altitude.
It is a small succulent plant forming rosettes of fleshy, green to red-green leaves. They have white mottled patterning on their surface and straight or slightly curved white teeth along the edges. The leaves grow up to 10 cm long and about 1 cm wide. The plant can reach up to 20 cm in height and 40 cm in diameter. After many years it forms clumps of up to a dozen rosettes.
The tubular flowers turn red or orange. They turn green at the tips and grow in lax racemes up to 30 cm high.
The succulent can be lightly fertilized at your discretion. These are rather smaller Aloes, which will delight not only with their stunning flowers. Outside the flowering period it impresses with its white teeth lining its leaves.