ALOE PILLANSII

The genera name is the ancient Greek and Latin name. The species name after Neville S. Pillans, the botanist who first collected it. **) The different between A. dichotoma and A. pillansii, besides from the oblivious different in adult appearance and the way the flowers grow, is the colour of the edges of the leaves. A. dichotoma have yellow thorns while A. pillansii's thorns are white. The flowers of A. pillansii is rather hanging while A. dichotoma 's grow upwards. How exactly Louise Guthrie and Bernardus Joannes Maria Zonneveld can claim it is the same species still remains to be explained to me! ') Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Aloaceae is now part of the Asphodelaceae. As this series shows: They are getting more and more scares: 1950. 1995. 2005, when I visited them.