Aloe cooperi Ponerorchis The initial rosettes are 18"

The initial rosettes are 18" tall x 3' wide

outlined with a wide band of bright yellow are held atop 4' tall stalks throughout the summer months

After 8 years

) is topped in early summer with 2' tall spikes of medium-lavender flowers

Very low maintenance perennial

Aloe cooperi Ponerorchis The initial rosettes are 18"Not to be confused with a '70s rock singer with unmown, grasslike hair, Aloe cooperi hails from the dry, open grasslands in the Natal Mountains of South Africa where it was discovered in 1860. The narrow, green, V shaped leaves are edged with a row of tiny white bumps. The fast multiplying, 2' wide deciduous clumps are topped in midsummer with 2' terminal flower spikes of dangling coral orange flowers. Both the young shoots and flowers are edible and