so how do you know if an aloe plant is edible/medicinally usable?

It came with the place so I don't know what variety it is.
#gardening #aloe

The centre of an aloe (a. polyphylla) growing in the botanic gardens. These are those spiral-shaped, so-spiky-they-hurt aloes that you don't want to touch them if at all possible!

#Plants #Aloe #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography @plants #Macro #MacroPhotography

The centre of an aloe (a. polyphylla) in the botanic gardens.

Hmm, looks a bit creepy if you look at it the wrong way...but it's just a plant!

#Plants #Aloe #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography @plants #Macro #MacroPhotography

I got the #PlantMail from this week potted up earlier this week. Hoping to keep the time inside in the warmth to a minimum so there’s not so much shock at being sent out into the freezing cold, especially as a couple came from the Gold Coast. I’m also pretty sure I’m coming down with something and didn’t want to risk not being up to it later in the week. These babies are too important.

- Myrtillocactus Gometrizans Fukurokuryuzinboku (Boobie Cactus): I’ve wanted one for ages and scored it from a seller’s closing down sale at a bargain price

- Echinocereus Rigidissimus (Rainbow Cactus): another one I’ve wanted for ages but others were higher on the wish list

- Echeveria Superbowl: I got at a discount, presumably because it’s not a perfect specimen, but it’s perfect to me

- Echeveria Cante x Laui: was just too petty to pass up

- Aloe Vera: I mentioned to a friend that I’d never actually seen it for sale so she dropped me off a piece

- Tacitus Bellus: has also been on my list for a while (the flowers are so beautiful) but had never come up in a sale when there was something else I wanted

- Echeveria Moulin Rouge: I just couldn’t pass up. She’s going to eventually get bumps and if you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know bumpies are my absolute favourite plants

#Succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #Echeveria #Tacitus #Aloe #Echinocereus #Myrtillocactus #Boobies #BoobieCactus #Rainbow #RainbowCactus #Gardening #GardeningAustralia #GardeningAus

Stopped off in the rain this morning.

I thought it was worth it! 😁

There are over over 650 species of #Aloe, which is a flowering succulent plant. The most widely known species is Aloe vera.

The leaves of #AloeVera contain significant amounts of the polysaccharide gel; acemannan, which can be used for a wide range of medical purposes.

I’ve used this on sunburn in past years and it is a magic potion… for relief and skin regeneration.

📸 - #GlenHuntly #melbourne #Australia

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

Time to enjoy beautiful #aloe blooming ❤️ :vegan: #nature #GranCanaria #aloevera

The balcony is abloom. The #Aloe has flowered for the first time, like an elongated toilet brush, and an acid #red flower has shot out from one of the #succulents

Aloe (?) species blooming in Whittier, California.

#Succulents #WhittierCalifornia #LosAngeles #Aloe

Potted up this week’s #PlantMail today.

Echeveria Tori, which I hadn’t come across before but it’s an uncommon frilly so I had to have it

Echeveria Cloudburst, which I wanted to add to my collection of pale blue leaved plants

Graptoveria Tri Colour, which is a replacement after mine dropped all of its leaves in a hissy fit last year for no apparent reason. I’m not the only one to have that happen so this is will be my last one and if it throws a tanty too then I’m not replacing it again. I debated long and hard over whether to replace it at all. I did get a teensy leaf baby from the old one too so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve potted them up together.

Aloe Distans (jewel aloe), which was a gift from the seller and not one I’d have chosen myself but it’s been put in semi shade with it’s brother aloe that I thought was dead and is now taking off and I’m sure I’ll grow to love it. A bit of variety in my plants is never a bad thing. Gotta have something in the garden for everyone to love and everyone who visits is attracted to something different.

#succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #Echeveria #Graptoveria #Aloe

#January 1, 1895
#OTD Cyntha Letty, #SouthAfrican #Botanical #Illustrator, is born.

The #CythnaLetty #Medal honors botanical #Artists who promote South African #Flora.

Cyntha designed #Floral emblems for her country's #Coin #Currency:
#Aloe for 10¢, #Protea for 20¢, #Agapanthus for 50¢.

She wrote #Poetry as well:

I hitched my wagon to a #Daisy
#Direction #Vague & #Destination #Hazy

But, could any #Star have guided me
more exactly
to where I most dearly #Loved to be?

@gersande
That's a beautiful display. I have both plants on my bedroom windowsill, including this 20 y/old medicinal aloe vera. She has given so much of herself over the years to sunburned backs and kitchen-burned fingers, that her stem corkscrews, and she lives on a bag 50cm from the pot she is planted in.

#Plants #Cactus #Aloe

@nymla You've inspired me to post a photo of a couple newish aloe cuttings growing in this beloved mug my daughter made for me when she was younger 🥰

#Succulents #Aloe #Pottery #Handmade

Aloe plant in the California State Capitol Park
#Photography #Aloe #Plant #CapitolPark #Sacramento #California

Guess I'm learning plant parenting now. 😂

#photography #plantparent #succulent #cactus #bonsai #aloe

I like making tiny pots out of milk packages for my cuttings

@plants #Plants #Aloe #Recycling