Aloe striata flowers

The Aloe striata, the coral aloe perianth or flower becomes about 3 cm long. Its common colour range is pinkish red to red-orange or bright orange. 

The perianth tube has a short bulge or swelling at the base, followed by a constriction beyond the ovary. Then there is a longer, gradually widened part before slight narrowing and lastly a curving out at the segment tips around the mouth. These tips are dark while closed, turning whitish to lemon yellow along the rounded margins at the tips of the outer segments when open.

Young buds are erect to angled up, the flowers starting to nod as they open. The bracts below the pedicels are narrowly triangular, whitish with visible veins (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Reynolds, 1974; Jeppe, 1969; iNaturalist).