When the landscape turns cold, bleak and often snowy, the Aloe ferox lifts its bright spears of red flowers all across the southern Karoo. Everywhere you go along the southern edges of the Karoo, a ...

David Mwesige, a landscaper at Golden Herbs, says the plant has dull green leaves and spots a reddish colour on its edge. Aloe Vera has a lot of species, but let us focus on a type called Aloe ferox ...

Ferox is Latin for "ferocious," so when a plant’s specific (species) name is "ferox," you can be certain it’s armed with spines or thorns — which doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be cultivated. After all, ...

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will likely begin his budget address by giving an update on health of his little aloe ferox plant, which has become a surrogate of sorts for the state of SA's economy.

Plant Physiology, Vol. 112, No. 1 (Sep., 1996), pp. 161-170 (10 pages) To study functional relationships between the effects of solar ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) on different aspects of the ...