Partridge-breast aloe, Aloe variegata, succulent plant with tall stalk bearing pink and scarlet drooping flowers.
Partridge-breast aloe, Aloe variegata, succulent plant with tall stalk bearing pink and scarlet drooping flowers, and four triangular dark and light green, variegated leaves at the base. Illustration by Henrietta Moriarty from "Fifty Plates of Greenhouse Plants" (1807), a re-issue of her own "Viridarium" (1806), with handcoloured copperplate engravings. Moriarty was a colonel's widow who turned to writing novels and illustrating botanical books to support her four children.
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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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