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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Cape aloe in English is the name of a plant defined with Aloe ferox in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pachidendron supralaeve Haw. (among others).

2) Cape aloe is also identified with Aloe spicata It has the synonym Aloe sessiliflora Pole-Evans.

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1804)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1825)
· American Journal of Botany
· Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (1896)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew (1901)
· Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin (1906)

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