Common name
English: Turk's cap
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Liliopsida (392)
Order: Asparagales (46)
Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae (15)(family description)
Genus: Aloe (12)
Epithet: peglerae Schönland (1)
peglerae => in honour of Alice Pegler, a botanist who collected plants and insects of the Magaliesberg in 1903
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habit: herb, shrub
Flower colour: orange