Aloe x Spinosissima carnivorous especially Japanese food

especially Japanese food

Archontophoenix purpurea

the rind of the Nagami kumquat fruit is sweet and edible

this palm displays red/purple stems when young

Aloe x Spinosissima carnivorous especially Japanese foodThis is often sold as a true species, but it is a hybrid presumably between Aloe humilis var. echinatum and Aloe arborescens. This is a suckering, mounding shrub up to about 3' tall and maybe twice as wide. Leaves are intensely spiny (in a relatively harmless, soft way, the way Aloe humilis is spiny) of light green to bluish0green, somewhat bendable leaves. Flowers are bright red in fairly compact, conical racemes on an unbranched pedicle. I have