Aloe vera is a perennial evergreen herb of the lily family with large, plump, pedunculate, or stem-topped leaves, often lanceolate or with short, broad leaves with sharp-toothed spines on the margins. The inflorescence is umbellate, racemose, spike-like, conical, etc., with red, yellow, or muddy spots, six petals, and six pistils. The base of the perianth is mostly conjoined into a tube.

1. Aloe Vera: a Popular Ornamental
Plant
Aloe vera is a perennial evergreen herb of the lily family with
large, plump, pedunculate, or stem-topped leaves, often
lanceolate or with short, broad leaves with sharp-toothed
spines on the margins. The inflorescence is umbellate,
racemose, spike-like, conical, etc., with red, yellow, or muddy
muddy spots, six petals, and six pistils. The base of the perianth
perianth is mostly conjoined into a tube.

2. Aloe vera is native to the Mediterranean, Africa, because it is
easy to plant, for both flowers and leaves of the ornamental
plants, quite popular.
Morphological Characteristics
Evergreen, succulent herb. Stems are short.
Leaves subclustered or slightly dichotomous (in young plants),
plump and juicy, lanceolate, pinkish green, 15-35 cm long,
4-5 cm wide at the base, with a few small teeth at the tip and
sparsely spine-like denticles at the margin.

3. Scape 60-90 cm tall, unbranched or sometimes slightly
branched; racemes with dozens of flowers; bracts
sublanceolate, apex acute; flower spots pendulous, sparsely
arranged, yellowish with red spots; perianth ca. 2.5 cm long,
lobes slightly recurved at the apex; stamens nearly as long as
or slightly longer than perianth, style protruding from
perianth.
Growth Habit
Soil
Aloe vera should have good permeability, high organic matter
content, pH 6.5-7.2.
Light
Light-loving, semi-shade tolerant, avoid direct sunlight and
excessive shade.

4. Temperature
The suitable growing environment temperature is 20-30℃
,
the best night temperature is 14-17℃
. Below 10 ℃stop
growing, below 0 ℃aloe foliage frost all wilted and died.
Water
Aloe vera has a strong drought resistance, away from the soil
of the aloe vera can be put dry for months without dying. Aloe
vera needs sufficient water during the growing season, but it
does not tolerate waterlogging.
Ecology

5. The ecological environment (air, water, soil, etc.) of aloe vera
should not be polluted and attention should be paid to
ventilation.
Aloe vera is generally propagated asexually using techniques
such as seedling division and transplanting or cuttings. Asexual
propagation is fast and allows for stable maintenance of the
excellent characteristics of the species.
Geographical Distribution

6. Aloe vera is native to the arid tropical regions of Africa and is
distributed almost all over the world. Aloe vera is found in the
wild around India and Malaysia, on the African continent, and
in the tropics.
There are at least 300 wild species of Aloe vera, of which there
are about 250 species in the African continent, about 40
species in Madagascar, and the remaining 10 species are
distributed in Arabia and other places.
Main Values
Health Value

7. Aloe Vera contains 75 kinds of elements, which are almost
identical to the substances required by human cells, have
obvious health care value and are proudly called the “miracle
plant” and “family medicine chest”.
Anti-aging
The mucin (protein) in aloe vera is composed of
polysaccharides such as arboran A Baloe mannanaloetin,
which is an important ingredient in preventing cellular aging
and treating chronic allergies. Mucin is present in the body’s
muscles and gastrointestinal mucosa, etc., and makes tissues
elastic.

8. If there is not enough mucin, muscles, and mucosa lose their
elasticity and become stiff and aging. The cells that make up
the human body will gradually weaken and lose their ability to
defend against germs and viruses if there is not enough mucin.
In addition, mucin has the effect of strengthening the body
and essence.
Promote Healing
It has a healing-promoting effect on artificial trauma rat’s
back Aloe vera and can shorten the healing days for artificial
conjunctival edema of rabbit Aloe vera. Aloe vera pulp
preparation has a protective effect on skin wounds, burns, and
X-ray local irradiation.

9. Heart-strengthening and Blood-activating
Calcium isocitrate in aloe vera has the effect of strengthening
the heart, promoting blood circulation, softening hardened
arteries, lowering cholesterol content, dilating capillaries,
making blood circulation smooth, reducing cholesterol value,
reducing heart burden, keeping blood pressure normal, and
removing “toxins” from blood.
Immunity and Regeneration
Aloe-emodin A, wound hormone and glycopeptide mannitol
(Ke-2) have an anti-viral infection, promote wound healing
and recovery, have anti-inflammatory and antiseptic

10. functions, absorb heat and swelling, soften the skin and
maintain cellular vitality, and the combination of gel
polysaccharide and healing acid also has wound healing
activity.
Beauty Value
Aloe vera contains polysaccharides and a variety of vitamins
for human skin has good nutrition, moisturizing, whitening
effect. Aloe vera is the most suitable fresh leaf for direct beauty,
i.e. Aloe curaçao, which has the properties of making skin
astringent, softening, moisturizing, anti-inflammatory and
bleaching.

11. It also has the effect of lifting sclerosis, keratinization, and
improving wounds, not only preventing small wrinkles, bags
under the eyes, and sagging skin, but also keeping the skin
moist and delicate, and at the same time, treating skin
inflammation, and is also good for acne, freckles, acne, as well
as burns, cuts and insect bites. It is also effective for hair,
keeping it moist and smooth and preventing hair loss.