Does anyone know exactly what kind of plant this is. The closest I can find is a tiger tooth aloe but it doesn't quite look like it.

Aloe juvenna, Tiger Tooth Aloe, that is what it looks like to me.

Hi elizabethca2, to the site!

My first though was also Tiger Tooth Aloe (Aloe juvenna)

Here are a couple of photos from our database at the above blue link:

Amazing!

Thank you all ! Yes that's what I thought also that it has to be a variety of a tiger tooth aloe. It is very very long , I had to tie up several strands to raise them up !

Late to this conversation, just wanted to add a couple of thoughts, coming from the aloe world.

It is a pretty fabulous plant, appears to be doing well.

For what it's worth, it's growing in a really low light situation (for an aloe) and that may explain its stemmy, cascading behavior. The height of the pot and the distance from the window mean it probably doesn't "see" the sun much for most of the year.

It looks really unlike the version of Aloe juvenna that I have here and that I have seen elsewhere, which is characterized by tight rosettes with leaves stacked right on top of each other. My reference says stems of this plant may grow to about 18 inches long. But the low light may explain the differences in appearance. There are also hybrids of this species in cultivation, and many other aloes with a sprawling habit.

So I guess my conclusion would be that I couldn't really identify it with any certainty, but I have almost no experience with aloes growing indoors away from the rays of the sun. My suggestion would be to try taking a short cutting from the tip of one of the stems (maybe use this as an excuse to prune a stem that is becoming overly long to deal with) and plant that cutting in a new pot, right next to your sunniest window, low down at sill level. Then wait and see how it grows, what it looks like, etc.

Tips for this purpose if you choose to experiment:

This is best done in spring with the strong light and warmer temps of the season. Now is about the worst time.

Wait a week after taking any cutting to plant it. In the meantime remove any lower leaves that come off the stem easily after you cut. A gentle tug is sufficient, don't pull hard.

Plant the cutting with just the naked stem at the bottom buried. Use a relatively small pot. Use soil with good drainage (like 50% pumice or perlite) and a pot with holes at the bottom.

The cutting will turn brown while it is rootless and stressed, for example:



During this period you need to water with restraint. Once you see a little green creep back into the leaves, you can begin to water it like a rooted aloe.

It was decided that my Aloe purchased with A. juvenna label was this instead:
Aloe 'Park Avenue'

The asked-about plant looks just like mine did before I decided it was too wild to keep around anymore, in the lower light that it had to contend with for winter.

It looks more like Juvenal than 'Park Avenue'. It doesn't have the teeth on the upper leaf surface that PV does. Tomorrow I'll get some pics of mine in the ground that are really long and in mostly sun. I'm using them as a ground-cover on a slope. Planted about 2 years ago.

Here they are





The first one is probably the biggest of the group. The rocks are 8-12" long. Last week we had night-time temps in the low to mid 30s. Tougher than you might think.

Thank you for your pics. My plant is very different. It is hanging inside the house in Maryland. It's in the warmest sunniest window I have which is south facing. The leaves are spaced out much more, thinner, and longer. And each strand grows very long. It must be some variety of a trailing aloe.

It's probably the same, just in very different conditions. The original plant got shaded for a while and looked a lot like yours.

Whichever it is, your Christmas cactus looks great!