Aloe burgerfortensis features unusual, brightly colored, downward-angled, red-orange flowers and attractive variegated foliage. The waxy leaves have sunken pores that prevent water loss.

Burgersfort Aloe, or Aloe burgersfortensis is very similar to two of its closer spotted aloe relatives and is only distinguished from the other similar species by its smaller size and longer floral bracts and pedicels. Recently, by authors H.F. Glen and D.S. Hardy in 2000, it was combined with Aloe parvibracteata. Burgersfort Aloe's native habitat in South Africa is on sandy soils in the open or the shade of trees. The tight rosettes can be 11 inches to 15 inches in height, the leaves are white spotted, brownish, with dry twisted tips. It has a four foot tall branched inflorescences of red flowers supported on dark stems. The spotted foliage is quite decorative and the flowers are said to be unusually attractive for this group of aloes.