The individual flowers begin as tight yellow buds that are packed densely on the racemes.

It is a very fast-growing aloe, which is usually single-stemmed in nature - though clumping, off-setting varieties seem to occur in cultivation.

The thin, partially recurved, spreading leaves form a dense rosette at the growth head of adult plants.

They are smooth, dull green, deeply grooved (U shaped in cross-section) and have reddish-brown margins and slightly hooked teeth.

[3][4] Aloe rupestris occurs naturally across the south-eastern summer-rainfall areas of Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa, as well as Eswatini (Swaziland) and southern Mozambique.