Aloe glauca flowers

Aloe glauca grows up to four simple inflorescences per leaf rosette, usually only three. These single racemes of up to 1 m long may appear simultaneously or consecutively.

Many triangular bracts with pointed tips clasp the thick peduncle below the florets. Initially fleshy, the bracts become papery when dry, persisting on the stalk. At the raceme tip in picture a pointed bract still clasps each of the buds, concealing them upon the rounded cylinder.

The slightly triangular open perianth or individual floret is salmon pink to pale apricot orange. It only nods when open, having been erect when constrained by its bract. The floret has a slight constriction a little distance from the base beyond the ovary. The two whorls of three segments each are free to near their base. The perianth becomes about 4 cm long (Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Reynolds, 1974; Jeppe, 1969; iNaturalist).