Hi all! I recently joined a horticulture club in my area and in the greenhouse they manage there are a few unidentified plants. I thought I would post some photos here and see if anyone can help us ID them. Any help or guesses are appreciated!


Last aloe! In the greenhouse we grouped several plants that look similar. Some of them look like soap aloe and some don't look like soap aloe at all. They all look fairly similar to each other though. This guy is confusing us b/c there are many that are on the spectrum between 'soap aloe' and 'not soap aloe'.

I think A. maculata, for most of them, but as you say not all. It is hard to get a good ID on these spotted aloes when this small.

I'd say plants like in picture #2 and #4 are likely Aloe maculata, #3 may be something else.

Thanks for your response! We'll wait for them to grow up a little bit and reevaluate the smaller guys! Glad to know we're on the right track though with the bigger ones.

It is my experience - though it could just be my specific growing and care conditions - that in little pots these grow relatively poorly, move to a larger pot or if at all possible to the ground and these will take off.

Here are a couple of mine that are in the ground. Obviously very happily in flower, but a little less obvious there are offsets all over the place between the other plants.