Aloe brevifolia Mill.
A small, woody-based, succulent perennial, 40 to 50 cm tall, growing in clumps of a number of leaf rosettes. Rosettes 10 to 20cm across. Leaves glaucous, thick, fleshy, up to 10 cm long; with white teeth along the margins. The surfaces are sometimes covered with white spots, sometimes raised, looking like thorns. Flowering stems unbranched, up to 40 cm long.Flowers pale scarlet to orange-scarlet, tubular, arranged in a conical raceme.
Local: Rare in Gibraltar. A native of South Africa, it has been introduced as an ornamental, and has become established in a small stand south of Half-way Battery at Europa Point.
Global: A native of South Africa.
Flowers from (February) March, April to May (June).
Grows on dry stony ground, grassy and waste places, waysides.