American aloe
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Historical Examples
An American aloe, which had been forty-four years in the royal garden, suddenly threw out a profusion of blossoms.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 421, November 1850 Various
You are like the great American aloe, by the time youre a hundred years old, youll be in full bloom!
Single Life John Baldwin Buckstone
noun
another name for century plant
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