The varieties of aloe vera that can be eaten are:

1. Aloe vera.

2. Aloe arborescens.

3. Chinese aloe vera.

4. Cape Aloe.

5. Soapy aloe vera.

6. Shangnong Daye Aloe.

7. Yuanjiang Aloe.

Morphological characteristics

Evergreen, succulent herbaceous plant. The stems are shorter.

The leaves are clustered or slightly birowd (for young plants), thick and juicy, strip-lanceolate, pink-green, 15-35 cm long, 4-5 cm wide at the base, with several small ones at the top. Teeth, with sparse spiny denticles on the edges.

The scape is 60-90 cm high, unbranched or sometimes slightly branched; racemes with dozens of flowers; bracts nearly lanceolate, with sharp apex; flower points are pendulous and sparsely arranged. , light yellow with red spots; the perianth is about 2.5 cm long, and the apex of the lobes is slightly curved; the stamens are nearly the same length or slightly longer than the perianth, and the style obviously extends out of the perianth.