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Originally Posted by Zigur
John,
My seedlings from that batch are now 6-7 feet tall (Karen has one) and very similar to regular bainesii. Do you know of any other large ones around?
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What do you mean by large? I have seen trees 10 years old and they are still not large if you mean barberae-large... though obviously they are tree aloes. I don't think they look like Aloe barberae, though they look more like A barberae than any other named Aloe (except perhaps for A eminens). Still they are quite easy to tell apart in their much thinner stems, thinner leaves, complex branching (not so 'dichotomous), upright pale orange flowers and much slower rate of growth. Cold hardiness is identical from what I can tell (both wimpy for aloes). And these individuals (and there are lots of them around southern California) are consistently alike, and consistently dislike Aloe barberae to be unlikely a natural variation of the same species. I saw some 'large' ones at Rancho Soledad (about 15' tall) and they looked like absurdly stretched versions of the same ones we see around here... nothing like the massive Aloe barberae shape.