{"title":"ALOES","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-corazon-adriente","title":"ISI 2025-10 Aloe 'Corazon Ardiente'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-10 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Corazon Ardiente' K.Zimmerman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is one of two aloe hybrids to be introduced this year by Karen Zimmerman and our top-notch tissue culture team. “Corazón ardiente” means “blazing heart” in Spanish, and it perfectly reflects the colors of this plant sparked not only by heat and bright light, but also cool, short days when growth slows down. Colors range from pinkish red to golden orange, like a romantic sunset. The intense colors are concentrated on the crowded ridged surface teeth, while the leaf margins are fringed with small, reddish-orange teeth. The photos here show the colors achieved when grown in our greenhouse. With brighter outdoor light, the colors will be even stronger! We offer rooted offsets from tissue culture of HBG 143915.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996304642,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-10.jpg?v=1779134455"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-gwen","title":"ISI 2025-11 Aloe 'Gwen'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-11 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Gwen' J.Trager\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November, 2007, I [John Trager] visited the San Marino garden of Gwen Babcock, a dear friend and supporter of the Huntington’s Desert Collections. I was interested in checking on a succulent installation we had worked on a few years before. Many of the plants thrived on a south facing slope that received some dappled morning and afternoon shade. Not all of the plants performed as well as hoped, so Gwen made a few substitutions over the years. One addition was a clumping aloe with attractive, compact racemes of orange flowers. It appeared to be a form of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but with flowers in November. This represented a highly desirable extension of the flowering season for this species. We grow other forms that typically flower in April or, with the cultivar ‘May Day’, as late as the month of May! The plant did well in a container in our shade house, gradually increasing in size and beauty. Finally, in March of 2016, the plant had filled a 10\" pot and was demanding more root room. We planted it at the bottom of the Desert Garden along the edge of the road that borders the west side of the Desert Garden and separates it from the Lily Ponds across the road. It thrived there and its cheery orange flowers were a nice complement to the orange fruits of the jelly palm, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eButia capitata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, that partly shades the bed. The plant proliferated over the next few years until we were able divide it and make a more impressive mass in this bed. When in flower, it never fails to impress with its tidy racemes and vivid color inspiring many who see it to photograph the scene. The rest of the year the low growing rosettes, only a foot or so tall, showed no tendency toward tip die-back or other blemishes, nor any sensitivity to the occasional frost experienced during winter in this part of the garden. Instead, it presents clean foliage with attractive white spotting and margins with prominent teeth that color up a glossy reddish-roan color. By 2023 the mass was becoming dense with offsetting clumps, affording the opportunity to divide and spread it around. The timing was convenient as we needed some showy material for the design of the new rockeries of volcanic scoria that we had just installed in the upper Desert Garden. We were delighted to find that not only did it flower spectacularly in November and December, as expected, but flowering persisted into the spring. The stemless, clumping rosettes suggested to visiting aloe expert Tom McCoy that this was a hybrid of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, perhaps with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. zubb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, accounting for its repeat blooming. The cultivar name still stands and can serve to honor anyone named Gwen that you may be fond of. The plant has proven to be an ideal choice for small landscapes where it earns its keep with a long-lasting floral show and ease of care. Therefore, we initiated the plant into tissue culture to expedite this offering. Rooted plants of HBG 119912.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996370178,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-11.jpg?v=1779134298"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-hanky-panky","title":"ISI 2025-12 Aloe 'Hanky Panky'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-12 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Hanky Panky'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis little troublemaker is the sibling of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Hodge Podge’ (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/media.huntington.org\/ISI\/ISI2023\/2023-09.html\" title=\"Aloe ‘Hodge Podge’\"\u003eISI 2023-9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). At the time, Karen struggled to decide between the two, as 'Hodge Podge' sports an eclectic mosaic of toothy textures but isn’t as colorful as 'Hanky Panky'. 'Hodge Podge' also has a cleaner growth habit (read fewer pesky offsets). However, Hanky has not faded with age, nor has it stopped vying for attention. Its deep, ruddy, red-orange coloring is difficult to ignore, and it has some of the same funky tooth clusters that distinguish ‘Hodge Podge’. Karen finally relented and decided to add her to our ISI family. We offer rooted offsets from tissue culture of HBG 143916.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996435714,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-12.jpg?v=1779134189"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-labworana","title":"ISI 2025-13 Aloe labworana 'Gold Dust'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-13 \u003cem\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Gold Dust' J.Trager\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis uncommon species seemed to enter southern California horticulture only in the last decade or so. This was due to the introductions made by Thomas Cole of Cold Springs Aloes, in Montecito, CA. He encountered the species in the course of his travels as a humanitarian aid worker in remote parts of Africa. He donated some of his collections to the Huntington and we grew to appreciate the ornamental species he was bringing to the attention of succulent collectors. Among these was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a species from Uganda and southern Sudan with showy panicles of yellow flowers borne on divergent racemes. While producing their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloes of Uganda: A Field Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2017) Cole and Forrest described \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elongifolia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which differs from the type subspecies in having longer, unspotted and more uniformly blue-green leaves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elabworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has leaves of a similar color but ornamented with lenticular (shaped like a lens when viewed in cross section) spots. These markings can vary in color from greenish to yellow. The selection offered here stands out for its especially colorful yellow spotting that complements the color of its flowers. New leaves also display waxy, milky, bud imprints. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 124741, a plant from Tom Cole, November 2, 2015, from seed collected in Uganda; Abim District; Labwor Hills, near Kiru.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996468482,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-13b.jpg?v=1779134120"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-retrospiciens","title":"ISI 2025-14 Aloe retrospiciens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-14 \u003cem\u003eAloe retrospiciens\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds \u0026amp; P.R.O. Bally\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rarely cultivated aloe is native to limited areas of N Somalia and SE Ethiopia. It is a small arborescent species to about 1.25 m (about 4') tall. It can be solitary or branched from the base to form 2- to 6-branched colonies. We haven’t grown our plants to maturity but look forward to seeing the flowers which are described as being secund (arranged along the tops of the racemes) and pointed backwards on a broad panicle. An inflorescence of a plant given to the Huntington was initiated into tissue culture, May 26, 2021. The inflorescence came from a plant of Daniel Gledhill’s which he received from Alexandre Viossat. Viossat grew his from controlled pollination of plants grown from Giuseppe Orlando collection GO 230804, seed collected November 8, 2003, at 860 m altitude, about 60 km NNE of Boorama, Somalia. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 139277.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996501250,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-14.jpg?v=1779134028"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-sinana","title":"ISI 2025-15 Aloe sinana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-15 \u003cem\u003eAloe sinana\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn April and May of 1956, aloe authority Gilbert Westacott Reynolds travelled over 3,000 miles through Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating aloes. Ten species encountered were subsequently described as new to science. Samples of four of these were sent back to Johannesburg to flower and be described later. Six, including this one, were published the following year in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouth African Journal of Botany\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (SAJB 23(1): 3 -5, 1957). Like the more familiar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which is also of Ethiopian origin, the related \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. sinana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e seems to be particularly well suited to cultivation in southern California. It is larger than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with longer leaves featuring attractive lenticular spots and reddish, toothy margins. It also bears more slender, taller inflorescences characterized by its flowers spreading horizontally or slightly downwards. These are clavate as in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We received two plants from Thomas Cole, November 2, 2016. These were planted in the lower Desert Garden June, 2017. Both flowered in 2021 and the inflorescences were bagged to exclude uncontrolled pollination. The flowers were subsequently hand-pollinated from June to July, 2021. The seed was sown October 15, 2021. These are now large enough for this offering, HBG 145784, from controlled pollination of HBG 127286, T. Cole 13013, from seed collected in Ethiopia; Amhara District; 10 km N of Debre Sina, the place for which the species is named. According to Reynolds, this is in the heart of the dense population and near the type locality which Reynolds designated in his original description as 18 km NE of Debre Sina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996534018,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-15g.jpg?v=1779133964"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-baby-grand","title":"ISI 2026-8 Aloe 'Baby Grand'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-8. Aloe 'Baby Grand' J. Bleck. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis fine, flowering miniature represents the last of the John Bleck hybrids to be introduced from his Collector Series. While most of those were introduced long ago, this one has been slower to propagate and is offered now in tribute to this great plantsman who passed away just shy of his 92nd birthday in April 2025. Some of John's notable aloe hybrids include \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Lizard Lips', \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Cha Cha', and \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Brass Hat'. These mostly resulted from his hybridization project when he was the Greenhouse Manager at UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s. His goal was to create dwarf, repeat-blooming aloes which were, therefore, derived from dwarf, floriferous Madagascan species like \u003cem\u003eAloe descoingsii\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds,\u003cem\u003e A. bakeri\u003c\/em\u003e Scott Elliot, \u003cem\u003eA. boiteaui\u003c\/em\u003e Guillaumin, and \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e A. Berger. Aloe 'Baby Grand' is Bleck's #1469: (\u003cem\u003eA. bakeri\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e) x ([\u003cem\u003eA. descoingsii\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e] x \u003cem\u003eA. boiteaui\u003c\/em\u003e). Its small, clean, dark green rosettes offset slowly but the short inflorescences with proportionately large, pinkish red flowers are outstanding for several months of the year in late winter and spring but also off and on throughout the year. We offer divisions of HBG 104832.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732908802,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Aloe_Baby_Grand.png?v=1778623823"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-cremnophila","title":"ISI 2026-9 Aloe cremnophila","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-9. \u003cem\u003eAloe cremnophila\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds \u0026amp; P. R. O. Bally. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rare Somalian aloe is known only from precipitous cliff faces of the Daloh escarpment, overlooking the Gulf of Aden. This rises to over 2000 m and catches moisture rising from the sea below supporting this species and other vegetation in this zone. This aloe is one of a group of species forming colonies of small rosettes of relatively few leaves that, when turgid, can be convex on both surfaces. It is thought to be most closely related to \u003cem\u003eAloe jacksonii\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds from Ethiopia but lacks the white spots of that species, being mostly a solid light green to gray green. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 103037, from the Zurich Succulent Collection, ZSS 89 2320\/0, a collection originally made by Peter R. O. Bally (#10334), October 2, 1954, at 2100 m on the Daloh Escarpment of Somalia, 18 km N of Erigavo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732941570,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JBM_Aloe_cremnophila.png?v=1778688987"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-cris-santana","title":"ISI 2026-10 Aloe 'Cris Santana'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-10. \u003cem\u003eAloe\u003c\/em\u003e 'Cris Santana' K. Zimmerman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the latest Karen Zimmerman \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003ehybrid. It stands out from her other hybrids in an eye-catching way. The otherwise smooth, green leaves are crowded with raised, longitudinal ridges on both the top and bottom surfaces of the leaves, sometimes with the proportions of a typical hyphen, other times two or three times as long, and occasionally with an outstanding ridge about five times as long! They are colorful too, from pale green to yellow to red, the colors intensifying during winter. The rosettes can reach 10 inches across and offset slowly, but we have been able to multiply the selection more rapidly in tissue culture. It is lovingly named for Karen's girlfriend, Cris, who has been an incredibly positive and empowering presence in her life even from a great distance. We offer rooted offsets of HBG 146285. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732974338,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/KZ_Aloe_Cris_Santana.png?v=1778689353"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-ribauensis","title":"ISI 2026-11 Aloe ribauensis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-11.\u003cem\u003e Aloe ribauensis\u003c\/em\u003e T.A. McCoy, Rulkens \u0026amp; Baptista. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis choice species was described in this Journal in 2014 (C\u0026amp;SJ 86(2): 48 ? 53. It is among the few Aloe species endemic to Mozambique including \u003cem\u003eA. cannellii\u003c\/em\u003e L.C.Leach, \u003cem\u003eA. decurva\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds, \u003cem\u003eA. mossuriliensis\u003c\/em\u003e Ellert, and \u003cem\u003eA. torrei\u003c\/em\u003e I.Verd. \u0026amp; Christian. Another aloe that occurs in Mozambique is \u003cem\u003eAloe mawii\u003c\/em\u003e Christian which also ranges into neighboring Malawi to the W and Tanzania to the N. Like that species, the inflorescences are distinctive in not being erect. In \u003cem\u003eA. mawii \u003c\/em\u003ethey spread horizontally outward and have secund flowers, arranged pointing upward, available to pollinating sunbirds. The inflorescences of \u003cem\u003eA. ribauensis\u003c\/em\u003e are also not erect and can be solitary or have a side branch. Instead of being mostly horizontal, these are decurved, that is, they arch and bend over, bearing the shorter racemes on the pendent portion. Also, instead of being secund, the flowers are arranged radially, spreading in all directions from the axis of the raceme, as in most aloes. The flowers are larger and darker orange to red than those of \u003cem\u003eA. mawii\u003c\/em\u003e but share the robust, contrasting, dark purple filaments that are exserted more than half the length of the corolla in a brush-like arrangement that functions just like a brush in dusting the sunbirds that visit to probe the flowers for nectar. Not only can the sunbirds perch atop the arched peduncle to reach most of the flowers in the basal portion of the raceme, but they may also perch on the sterile portion at the apex of the raceme to reach the more distal flowers. We offer rooted plants from tissue culture of HBG 143917, originally initiated from a young raceme of a plant from aloe collector Daniel Gledhill. Daniel grows one of the few plants originally tissue cultured from a particularly showy, red-flowered form collected by Tom McCoy, July 3, 2013, at the type locality: Mt. Ribaue, Nampula Province, Mozambique, at 1000m on granite.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762733498626,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Aloe_ribauensis.png?v=1778689731"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/collections\/isi2025-12.jpg?v=1779380320","url":"https:\/\/plantsales.huntington.org\/collections\/aloes.oembed","provider":"The Huntington Plant Sales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}