Aloe jucunda

Aloe jucunda

Jucunda Aloe is a plant of the genus Aloe within the subfamily of Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). It is used as an ornamental plant.

Description

Aloe is a perennial succulent jucunda plant that reaches a maximum height of from about 35 cm. On the short trunk sits a rosette of about 8 cm in diameter. The succulent leaves are dark green, up to 4 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. They come with many translucent spots and their edge is occupied by a series of about 2 mm long teeth.

The inflorescence stem has a length of about 35 cm. The tubular flowers have pale pink to bright pink colored bloom.

Systematics, distribution and hazard

Aloe jucunda colonized dry forests and is endemic in Gaan Libah Conservation Area spread in the north of Somalia. It grows on limestone at altitudes from 1060 to 1680 meters. The first description was in 1953 by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds in Journal of South African Botany, Kirstenbosch, Volume 19, pp. 21-23.

Aloe jucunda is listed in CITES Appendix II.

Swell

• Marshall Cavendish Corporation: Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World. Marshall Cavendish, 2001, ISBN 9,780,761,471,943th
• Maurizio Sajeva, Mariangela Costanzo: Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary. Timber Press, 1997, ISBN 9,780,881,923,988th