Local names:
Dilang-boaia (Bik.); dilang-halo (Bis.); sabila (Tag.); sabila-pina (Tag.); aloe (Engl.), burn plant, lily of the desert, elephant"s gall

Aloe,  is a genus containing about four hundred species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe".

The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa"s Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands off Africa.