Help ID this Aloe, is it Aloe 'Creamsicle'?

[BayAndroid]

Hi, I took this photo on the Stanford University campus. It's in their cactus garden. 

 

Is it Aloe 'Creamsicle'? 

[Silas_Sancona]

19 minutes ago, BayAndroid said:

Hi, I took this photo on the Stanford University campus. It's in their cactus garden. 

 

Is it Aloe 'Creamsicle'? 

I thought creamsicle had paler orange flowers.. 

That said,  that trait could vary a bit too.

If a raw species, one of the squat trunking sps.  ..like A. marlothii / ferox would be where I'd look to pin down a more exact I'd. I forget which one has more prickly bumps on it's leaves / leaves are longer and narrower vs. fat / wider.

Nice specimen regardless.

[Tracy]

23 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

I thought creamsicle had paler orange flowers.. 

That said,  that trait could vary a bit too.

If a raw species, one of the squat trunking sps.  ..like A. marlothii / ferox would be where I'd look to pin down a more exact I'd. I forget which one has more prickly bumps on it's leaves / leaves are longer and narrower vs. fat / wider.

Nice specimen regardless.

Aloe marlothii is more armed on its leaves than Aloe ferox and seems to have fatter and wider leaves.  Here in Southern California, the Aloe ferox are in bloom but the Aloe marlothii are a few months away from blooming again.  The variation of Aloe ferox I am growing has darker orange inflorsence than the specimen shown in the photo from Stanford, and mine aren't opening flowers yet (which are more yellow, like the ones at the base of the inflorescense of the Stanford specimen).  I can't say if the one Bayandroid posted is in the normal realm of color variation for an Aloe ferox or if the slight differences point to a possible hybrid of Aloe ferox.  My first instinct in seeing the specimen was to think of Aloe ferox though.  I don't know what the theoretical parentage is for Aloe "creamsicle" or the flower color.

Below are some specimens Aloe marlothii and Aloe ferox for comparison.  The blooming specimens are the Aloe ferox.  One of the A ferox is not upright because it has stretched away from the wall to gain more sunlight after being shaeded by the adjacent Cycas thouarsii.

[Silas_Sancona]

14 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Aloe marlothii is more armed on its leaves than Aloe ferox and seems to have fatter and wider leaves.  Here in Southern California, the Aloe ferox are in bloom but the Aloe marlothii are a few months away from blooming again.  The variation of Aloe ferox I am growing has darker orange inflorsence than the specimen shown in the photo from Stanford, and mine aren't opening flowers yet (which are more yellow, like the ones at the base of the inflorescense of the Stanford specimen).  I can't say if the one Bayandroid posted is in the normal realm of color variation for an Aloe ferox or if the slight differences point to a possible hybrid of Aloe ferox.  My first instinct in seeing the specimen was to think of Aloe ferox though.  I don't know what the theoretical parentage is for Aloe "creamsicle" or the flower color.

Below are some specimens Aloe marlothii and Aloe ferox for comparison.  The blooming specimens are the Aloe ferox.  One of the A ferox is not upright because it has stretched away from the wall to gain more sunlight after being shaeded by the adjacent Cycas thouarsii.

👍  That's what i thought regarding leaf shape / size / texture between the two.

If I remember correctly, Creamsicle is supposed to be a cross between arborescens and ferox.