Everywhere you go along the southern edges of the Karoo, a slow-blooming colour splash straddles the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, brightening every north-facing hillside with colonies of ferocious ...

In Athol Fugard’s 1978 play, A Lesson From Aloes, the aloe is used allegorically as a tool for trying to establish a sense of place in a country with so much racial conflict. In isiXhosa, Aloe ferox ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q I was told that there was a plant of Aloe ...

CAPE TOWN - Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday returned to the podium with an Aloe Ferox plant when delivering his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on Wednesday. The minister ...

David Mwesige, a landscaper at Golden Herbs, says the plant has dull green leaves and spots a reddish colour on its edge. Aloe Vera has a lot of species, but let us focus on a type called Aloe ferox ...

The world of aloes is a large and complex one, with whole books on the subject. It is becoming more common to see a variety of attractive species populating nurseries, because aloes are tough and ...

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will likely begin his budget address by giving an update on health of his little aloe ferox plant, which has become a surrogate of sorts for the state of SA's economy.

Ferox means ‘’ferocious,’’ so this spiny aloe from South Africa is well named. It’s a trunk-forming species that grows up to 15 feet tall on sandy sites in sun. This cold-hardy plant bears gorgeous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study concerns both the variety of physical habitats occupied by an arid land plant species and the intermeshing of its geographical ...

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