Aloe cooperi Yucca Hans Hansen of Walters Gardens

Hans Hansen of Walters Gardens

grey-green leaves with a white midrib

even before it's topped with 4

The normally shiny

from which dangle dodecatheon-like flowers

Aloe cooperi Yucca Hans Hansen of Walters GardensNot to be confused with a '70s rock singer with unmown, grasslike hair, Aloe cooperi hails from the dry, open grasslands in the Natal Mountains of South Africa where it was discovered in 1860. The narrow, green, V shaped leaves are edged with a row of tiny white bumps. The fast multiplying, 2' wide deciduous clumps are topped in midsummer with 2' terminal flower spikes of dangling coral orange flowers. Both the young shoots and flowers are edible and