Species · genus Aloe · Asphodelaceae

Tiger Tooth Aloe

Aloe juvenna Brandham & S.Carter

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Kenya, Tanzania

Reference · A. juvenna

Cultivars of A. juvenna

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No named cultivars catalogued under A. juvenna yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Aloe juvenna is a small succulent subshrub from the arid highlands of Kenya and Tanzania, storing water in its tightly stacked, toothed leaves. It wants bright light, gritty fast-draining mix, and deep but infrequent watering — water only when the soil has dried out completely all the way through, then let it run dry again. It rots if left sitting wet, so err toward drought.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

7–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings or offsets, dried a few days before potting

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs

Saponins + anthraquinones (the latex) — vomiting, lethargy, diarrhoea. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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