A.dorothea was one of my favorite Aloes,then stolen from my front yard. It had great summer color,glossy foliage. I haven't seen another for sale since the early 21st when I bought mine. It's amazing how what's dirt common at the box stores for a year or two then,just flat out dissapears for years from the trade-or for good. "Sunshine Schefflera " and "Maouri princess fern" come to mind. At least the fern I still have.

Thank you very much! I'll look for reddish/pink flowers in the future

I'm just piggybacking on this one if you don't mind. I have a sick aloe vera, too. I wonder if it got too wet or too cool (or both). It's losing its color and getting limp. It was a baby off of my mom's humongous one that's now gone. My sister's is doing great. I saw some advice about checking the roots to see if they were OK (like nueva gardener did above) and haven't done that yet. I wanted to have the soil on hand first (cactus or African Violet soil was recommended -- it's been in sand for decades and that's what it's still in). Anyway -- my real question was with rooting in the perlite. Do you wet IT when you first start out? Thanks! Flo :-)

Jeff, your 1st one looks like Aloe 'Quicksilver' or 'Snowflake' to me (as does Josiah's 'Doran Grey'-although I have never seen or heard of one by that name before now). AFAIK, Aloe 'Doran Black' has larger hyaline teeth & raised bars on the leaves. Does yours have the raised bars? I can't tell very well from the pic. One I have-can't decide if 'Quicksilver' or 'Snowflake' (I know... that doesn't help! I bought it as 'Quicksilver'.): ~Click on thumbnails for larger views~ One of mine ('Doran Black') colored up: and one not: Another of a clump, after being on my SOS program (this used to be the non-colored up plant above): and its flowers (red): Last, a baby 'Doran Black': The 2nd could look very different under a variety of conditions, so I won't speculate on that one. I agree with the others, the last looks to be Aloe 'Pink Blush'. If you get some SUN: