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Type:Cactus and Succulents Height:18-36 in. | 45-90 cm Aloe cameronii is a suckering shrubby aloe with spectacular leaves that in bright sunlight turns crimson. It is one of the redder aloes available. It is a medium sized aloe that spreads slowly and in time will produce a nice clump 60-150 cm high, rarely to 250 cm when supported by surrounding vegetation. The blooms are truly beautiful bright orange-red, and even more attractive in contrast with the deep red foliage. Stems: Numerous upright, branching from the base and above, ascending or the basal ones decumbent, all clothed in persistent leaf remains. Rosettes: 30-60 cm across, with lax erect-spreading leaves. Leaves: Curvaceous, narrow, 40–50 cm long, 5–7 cm wide near the base, lanceolate-attenuate, shiny skinned, uniformly green or occasionally with a few whitish spots especially on young leaves, red-tending, that turns deep coppery red in the dry season when grown in full sun and high heat. Margin with pungent deltoid minutely brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long and 8–15 mm apart. Also, the sap is purple when you break a leaf, so watch out for staining. Inflorescence: 1 to 3 from each leaf rosette, erect to 1 m tall above the rosette; branches curving upwards and subtended by deltoid bracts about 5 mm long and 10 mm wide, with few sterile bracts below the racemes. Racemes cylindrical, 10-30 long and 5–8 cm in diameter, more or less densely flowered; bracts 2-3 long, 3-4 mm wide, ovate, pale brown; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Flowers: Perianth bright glossy red with paler tips, to orange or occasionally creamy-yellow, 35–45 mm long, slightly curved, 5-7 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly towards the mouth to 6–10 mm in diameter, cylindric; outer segments free to nearly halfway, with tips spreading. Stamens and stigma exserted 4-10 mm, yellow, with anthers reddish-orange.