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Aloe Plant Rolled Canvas Prints
Aloe Plant Rolled Canvas Prints
Aloe is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe", so called because, though probably extinct in the wild, it is cultivated as the standard source of so-called "aloe vera" for assorted pharmaceutical purposes.Other species, such as Aloe ferox, also are cultivated or harvested from the wild for similar applications. The APG III system places the genus in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae. In the past, it has been assigned to the family Aloaceae (or to a broadly circumscribed family Liliaceae (the lily family). The plant Agave Americana, which is sometimes called "American aloe", belongs to the Asparagaceae, a different family.