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A small, stemless, lightly clustering Aloe with broad, bluish to brownish green leaves and small, sparsely branching inflorescences with compact terminal clusters of yellow flowers. Aloe richaudii is known only from the type locality in northernmost Madagascar, where it grows on granite cliffs at low elevations. In cultivation it is best suited to tropical climates.
Aloe richaudii is a distinctive species characterised by yellow flowers and yellow teeth on the leaf-edges.
Habit: Stemless, branching from the base to form clumps with five or six rosettes.
Leaves: About 18, lanceolate up to 30 cm long and 8 cm wide, upright to spreading, bluish-green, reddening in cool weather or under stress conditions. Margins with yellow teeth up to 2 mm long and about 8 mm apart.
Inflorescences: Racemes capitate, one or two branched and up to 32 cm tall with egg-shaped, white bracts 8-9 mm long and 3-5 mm wide. Heads of flowers, dense 4,5-5 cm long and 6,5-7 cm in spread.
Flowers: about 30 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, hanging downward from the top of the grape, cylindrical, yellow, pedicel 16-18 mm long. Outer tepals almost completely free. Stamens and pistil not protruding.
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