| Scientific Name: | Aloe vera |
| Common Name: | healing plant |
| Family Name: | Asphodelaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant, Succulent or Cacti |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Basal, Succulent, Glabrous, Glaucous, Lanceolate, Dentate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Orange, Yellow, Red, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal to spiraled, lanceolate, most 20-45cm long x 2-6cm wide x 1-3cm thick, sword-like, fleshy (clear gel inside), margin toothed (soft spines); flowers tubular with 6 tepals on long racemes. | |