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Aloe
tomentosa Deflers
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This is a hardy aloe from the mountains
of northeast Africa, Arabia and Yemen. The green to off white flowers
which appear in late summer are generally covered in thick wool. Its
single rosette of pale greenish-gray leaves can be up to 2' tall and
4' across. It is sometimes call hairy green aloe, and it is the most
densely woolly of the several hairy aloe species that grow in the vicinity
of the Red Sea, hence its name 'tomentosa,' which means densely wooly.
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