Aloe polyphylla

Spiral Aloe’s natural home is of the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho in South Africa.
These Aloes can withstand freezing temperatures (-15°C) they can often be under snow in their natural habitat.
Aloe polyphylla is a stemless aloe and grows its leaves in a very distinctive spiral shape which may be clockwise or anti-clockwise.
The fat, wide, serrated, gray-green leaves have sharp, dark leaf-tips and grow in the five spiral rows.
This aloe flowers at the beginning of summer, producing flowers that range in colour from red to salmon pink and occasionally yellow, at the head of robust, branched inflorescences.