The peduncle of an Aloe succotrina inflorescence is a straight, sturdy and erect column, here brownish green in colour. Its inside surface is flat, the outside convex. There are spaced and scattered papery sterile bracts upon the peduncle surface below the inflorescence.
In the photo additional inflorescences are emerging from the rosette centre, the base of the older one a little further out still live and green, belonging to the same season as the beginners. A multitude of underdeveloped buds, already recognised as separate yet compactly held together as the inflorescence starts off, form a smooth-surfaced, snake-like head that will rise imperceptibly above the foliage and announce its presence.
The whitish margins and almost regular, prickly teeth of a leaf tip seen from above resemble the lower jaw of a sea creature that might arise in the imagination from waters best avoided (Reynolds, 1974; Jeppe, 1969).