Good interior plant in high light. Can mix with Aloe spp. Bottom of road going to Kellogg Mansion. The trunk is slender in the upper portions of the plant but very swollen at the base which perhaps functions in water storage. The leaves tend to recurve and have grooves.
Margins are nearly smooth.
Flowers are pink to chamois colored in spring after the plant is 20 to 25 years old. The fruit color is a brown drupe or berry and smaller than palm dates. This species makes a good interior plant when given bright light and not over watered. Outside, is a great accent plant or specimen. The specimen you saw on campus is probably the variety intermedia which are common in California and have leaves to 3 '.