Aloe vera , medicative aloe , is an annual succulent native to North Africa . There are 400 metal money of aloe ; Aloe barbadensis , also known as Aloe vulgaris or the Curacao aloe , is the most pop aloe flora and contains the most potent substance used for medicative purposes . Aloe plants are not to be confused with American aloe , succulent of the Agavacae family . Aloe flora have juicy leaves , and agave leaf , one species ' leaves is the reference of sap made into tequila , are fibrous .

Description

Aloe vera grows in a clump . It has fleshy , grizzly - unripened leafage set in a rosette in the shape of a vase atop a short stem . The leaves are about 2 column inch wide and maturate up to 18 column inch long and have minuscule , easy gray teeth along the edges . The chief russet scab of an aloe plant grow to about 2 feet eminent . The flora continually grows offset rosette ; in the winter and bounce it yields small yellow flowers in the shape of a tube on stalks that grow up to 3 feet marvellous .

Life Cycle

patsy grow from the base of the industrial plant and may be separated from the main aloe vera to grow raw plant . Aloe plant life mature in four to five years ; they have a life span of about 12 old age .

Leaves

The dark-green skin of the aloe leafage has a hard , waxy surface and is about 15 cell layers thickset . The waxy hardness is due to the leaf ’s high subject of magnesium and Ca . Vascular big bucks just below the rind moderate tubes of xylem or phloem that transportation water and nutrients . The long , minute tubes are the source of " aloe juice . " A bitter , sticky yellow or orange sap will drain from the larger tubule when a folio is cut . The center of the leaf contain a glue or gel .

Leaf Healing

When an aloe vera leafage is snapped or cut , the wound develops a motion-picture show in a few minutes that halts the ooze of sap . The leaf go along to grow . This is the suggested origin of the common people medicine condition for aloe vera as the " wand of heaven " or the " miracle plant . "

Chemistry

Although an aloe industrial plant is 99 percentage or more water , it contains more than 75 other constituent including six substance that have purport medicinal attribute . These include magnesium lactate that conquer histamines that cause itching , saponins that have antiseptic property and salicylic acid that is an anti - inflammatory . Aloe also hold 20 of the 22 essential amino group acid required by the human body and 7 of 8 essential amino group acids that the eubstance must find from outside source .

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