Here is a seedling I grew from that plant (presumably pollinated by one of its neighbors). Looking very well armed at a young age (in an 8 inch pot). The flowers will tell me everything (I hope) about the paternity, so I'm looking forward to that maybe next winter, in a year and a half.
Thank you so much for the kind words and the acorns.
That sliver alone would be enough to tell an aloe nerd exactly which species (of the 500 or so in the genus) this plant is. So it's a signature thing, a 1 in 500 thing, the thing you look for when you want to nail down the ID. Distilled essence of marlothii, as it were.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
The flowers will tell me everything (I hope) about the paternity, so I'm looking forward to that maybe next winter, in a year and a half.
