This perennial succulent commonly has a solitary trunk with a crown of spreading foliage. It has thick fleshy broad lanced-shaped leaves with spiny margins and the orange tube-shaped flowers appear in a raceme above the foliage during late winter. 

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Aloe rupestris is naturally found in South Africa from Natal to Swaziland and southern Mozambique growing in coastal bushland or hot valleys and on rocky slopes from sea level to an altitude of 1,000 m (3,300 ft). 

It prefers a very well drained moderately fertile sandy-stony soil in an open to exposed sunny position and is drought tolerant but frost tender. 

The Bottlebrush Aloe is grown for its stately growth habit and its flowers. It is planted in large sunny rockeries or arid gardens as a specimen or when young in patio tubs and planter boxes. It is suitable for coastal and inland regions and establishes in 4-6 years. This perennial can also sucker and in cold regions it is grown as a glasshouse specimen. ID 265

Aloe (AL-oh-ee) rupestris (rue-PES-tris )
Xanthorrhoeaceae (zan-thor-RHO-AY-see-ee)
subsp. Asphodeloideae