When the landscape turns cold, bleak and often snowy, the Aloe ferox lifts its bright spears of red flowers all across the southern Karoo. Everywhere you go along the southern edges of the Karoo, a ...

David Mwesige, a landscaper at Golden Herbs, says the plant has dull green leaves and spots a reddish colour on its edge. Aloe Vera has a lot of species, but let us focus on a type called Aloe ferox ...

In Athol Fugard’s 1978 play, A Lesson From Aloes, the aloe is used allegorically as a tool for trying to establish a sense of place in a country with so much racial conflict. In isiXhosa, Aloe ferox ...

CAPE TOWN - Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday returned to the podium with an Aloe Ferox plant when delivering his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on Wednesday. The minister ...

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will likely begin his budget address by giving an update on health of his little aloe ferox plant, which has become a surrogate of sorts for the state of SA's economy.

Ferox is Latin for "ferocious," so when a plant’s specific (species) name is "ferox," you can be certain it’s armed with spines or thorns — which doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be cultivated. After all, ...