Aloe vera
Aloe barbadensis miller
Also called aloe.
As much sun as you can give it and very little water. Wants gritty soil; ordinary compost holds too much and the base goes soft.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 50 cm
- Smallest sensible enclosure
- 25 L, at least 25 cm long
- Temperature
- 15 to 30 °C
- Humidity
- 10 to 50%
- Grown
- in a pot of its own
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a aloe vera fits the enclosure you have.