I've had this plant for years and this shoot came up with what looks like are flower buds. Is this a Safari Sunrise Aloe Vera Plant? I cloned three others and none of them are doing this.

This one is happier, or more mature?

Sally-I've had it for over ten years and I water it once a month?

Lovely Aloe but it doesn't look like any of the database photos of Aloe Safari Sunrise™

edited to add: Yes that is a bloom spike with buds!

I can't advise specifically but I think plants tend to flower if they have built up enough energy to do so.

Aloes like a lot of light. The more natural light, the better indoors. Right in front of your sunniest unobstructed southerly facing window is best. An indoor aloe is not guaranteed to flower under low light conditions. I bet you see a lot more flowering if you can provide more light.

For what it's worth, that is not Aloe vera, which is just one of about 500 species of aloes. Nor is it the hybrid cultivar Safari Sunrise, which has different rosettes and flowers. It is likely one of many random hybrids in circulation, not that they differ particularly in terms of care.

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What is your best guess on what species of plant this is?

Not sure what to call it, or if it is even a species.

While there are over 300 varieties of aloe vera, Aloe barbadensis Miller is the most commonly known. It features lance-shaped leaves and spiky flowers, and its leaves break open to reveal a green gel. I'm sure it is an Aloe barbadensis Miller I bought at Home Depot seven years ago. They still sell it.

It is not that plant, which has yellow flowers and is now known as Aloe vera.



It is something else. If you read the aloe care guide I linked to earlier, you can learn about the great variety of aloes out there. There are hundreds of aloe species but only one of them is Aloe vera. Again, not that it typically matters much for care.

Here is what Home Depot labeled my plant for what it is worth.

mikebat said: Here is what Home Depot labeled my plant for what it is worth.

Please click on the Aloe vera name within the image Baja posted. Under the botanical names heading, it shows Synonym: Aloe barbadensis.

Altman Plants, a main supplier of succulents to Home Depot, has a long history of getting aloe names wrong. In all fairness, they do get most of their names right. And they do put out some beautiful plants. But in this case the name on the label does not correspond to the contents of the container, judging by the appearance of the flower.

When in doubt I would recommend spending a few minutes looking at images in the database here, which have been screened pretty well for accuracy in identification. The flower is usually the most useful part of an aloe plant for identification purposes.

And a warning I like to include with any aloe that is supposed to be medicinal: do not trust the label on any plant you would like to use for medicine unless you already have a lot of experience with the genus. Confirm the flowers are a match for the species in question first.

mikebat said: I've had this plant for years and this shoot came up with what looks like are flower buds. Is this a Safari Sunrise Aloe Vera Plant? I cloned three others and none of them are doing this.

they say some plants bloom when the conditions are perfect. keep it up

I've been keeping one of those spotty - leafed so- called Aloe Vera for some years, and while it can grow apparently well, make lots of pups, and some main stems get pretty big, I've never seen flowers. So maybe yours got some vague 'trigger' to bloom which mine haven't. Or like just said, it got exactly what it wanted.

I would love to know how you cloned your "aloe"

thanks

Permastake,
When the plant has outgrown the pot, and needs to be repotted in a bigger pot, is the best time to clone the plant. I just gently pull off some leaves with the roots attached and replant them in a new pot. Most times several leaves with roots fall off naturally in the repotting process. I have done this three times now. The picture of the Aloe I posted is a clone from the original plant I bought at Home Depot years ago.
Mike