Kumari

Sanskrit Name : Kumari Latin Name : Aloe vera Habitat : Cultivated throughout India. Morphology : A Perennial plant with a short stem. Leaves - 30-60 cm long,erect,crowded in a basal rosette,juicy,glaucous-green,narrow,lanceolate,long acuminate,margins with spiny teeth. Flowers - yellow,in dense racemes terminating the scapes. Juice - fresh juice is obtained by crushing the white pulp of green leaves,It is sticky liquid of golden yellow colour. Dried juice - Aloes - solid mass of irregular shape and different sizes,dark chocolate to black colour,surface hard,opaque with slightly vitreous appearance. Flowers and Fruit at the end of winter.

Aloe having 4 varieties - 1) Sacrotine - imported from Zanzibar and ports of the Red sea. 2) Arabian 3) Jaffarabadi 4) Maisuri

Indicative Price

Kumari's Raw Herb - $30

Kumari's Powder - $36.3

Kumari's Oil - $60

Kumari's Extract - $90

More than 50 species of Aloe it is noticed.

At present A.barbadensis,A.chinensis,A.Vera are mainly being used as Kumari.