Aloe africana leaves

The long, slender leaves of Aloe africana spread and recurve in the large single rosette. The leaf colour is dull to greyish green, sometimes properly glaucous or blue-green.

Hard and sharp, reddish brown teeth are spaced evenly along the margins, but larger and more spaced nearer the leaf tips. The blades are often without spines, although a few sparsely scattered spines may be present on both leaf surfaces or some concentrated in a short keel row below the leaf tip.

The leaf margins curve up, rendering the upper leaf surface channelled. On plants a bit taller than this one the upper leaves will show more spread, the lower ones more droop.

Leaf sap of A. africana is pale honey-coloured (Reynolds, 1974; Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Jeppe, 1969; Coates Palgrave, 2002).