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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.