This is a plant that should be in every exotic garden, as it is the hardiest of the aloes and probably one of the hardier exotics in general. It grows into a leggy, many headed shrub with rosettes of dark green leaves edged with white marginal teeth held on the terminal portions of the stems. The stem sheaths are distinctly striped white and green (= striatula). The plants generally flower their socks off, producing dense, unbranched pokers of yellow tubular flowers with orange and green accents. It grows fairly quickly and if not cut back by frost will need some assistance with the secateurs to keep looking good. The top growth seems hardy to around -8°C