This is the other one. It's in a 4" pot, and the largest plant is three and a half inches tall.
Any ideas what they might be?

Nancy,
I don't know if it will help us or not, but what part of the country are you in & where did you purchase these? Neither of these look familiar to me right off the bat.

Hi Rosemarie, I am in Missouri and I purchased them from an older lady who has a small greenhouse packed with stuff she's had for years. I think some of her plants might be hybrids with haworthia and gasteria, and if so which parents will the blooms look like?

In that case, it way be very difficult to pin down, especially if open-pollinated in her greenhouse. You could narrow down which 2 of the 3 genus mentioned would be involved, once you see the blooms. I can't say that the flowers would look just one way for those with Gasteria & another way for those crossed with Haworthia. I don't have enough examples to show you, but this one belongs to an xGasteraloe.

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As with flowers of either Haworthia or Gasteria, the blooms will be spaced apart in the inflorescence. They will likely have the color of the Aloe bloom, but the shape of the bloom would differ. Gasteria influence would likely have a puffed part (stomach) & I would imagine Haworthia would have skinnier blooms w/a flared opening. I am not sure I've ever seen blooms from an Alworthia before.

If I find any other examples of blooms, I'll be back. =)

I am not sure what they are called, but they sure are gorgeous! Especially that first one!

Oh. Love the first one. A whole lot.

My guess is that the first one is Aloe grandidentata. They will pup furiously in a small pot but if given ground will gain a some size and bloom. They are quite hardy for an aloe. They can tolerate a good bit of shade.

Wantonamara, I looked that up, and they do sort of look like Aloe grandidentata. However, I have been growing these for 2 years or more, and they have never grown into the star shape like I saw on the web. So today I separated out a couple to put in a separate pot where they will have more room and I can see if they will grow differently. But! the 'pups' even have tiny pups, which I noticed when I unpotted it!

Your pot looks exactly like the pot that I bought from the store. When I unpoted it, there was no soil but it was FULL of cock roaches YUCK! I have it out in a part shady border and it still makes lots of babies but I did spread them out. They will in awhile make a mat of aloe. They will get larger and the rosette will get "round" in form. Trust me. I think they do not have enough ground in your pot with so many plants in there. Pull out that large one that is starting to twist out of the juvenile form and give it its own pot or put it in the ground if you live in a suitable zone. In my garden, One is sending up a bloom stalk as we speak. I am zone 8b. They froze back to the ground and returned in the spring, after 3 nights of below 15F. A friend of mine has them growing in a large strawberry pot and they spread out and make those beautiful stars on the side of the pot. Nice potting. I am going to copy her as soon as I get another strawberry pot.

I think they are both accidental hybrids, that doesn't mean they can't be pretty. I have a large collection of named hybrids not all have red, coral flowers. I like the strawbetty pot idea, more plants in a smaller space. I can't believe at 81 I can still type even though I have a heck of time doing so. My fingers are not straight, and don't do want I tell them to do. Norma

I have included some of my Aloe grandidentata. Mind you they are growing in the ground and not in a pot. They behave totally differently. They pup further away and a little less often. Mine have been out there for awhile and had that bad freeze and mutiple years of drought. I do not water.

Here they are in Juvenile form. ( I give a lot of them away)
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Here they are larger in their starlike form sending out a bloom stalk.

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Very beautiful, wantonamara! I need to find one of those!!! There is definite similarities between the two aloes. Thanks for sharing!

Wantonamara, thank you for posting the photos. Those are really nice looking plants - I will wait to see if the ones I potted up individually turn into that beautiful star shape. On the one that is blooming, how many inches do you think it is from tip to tip? And is that about as large as they get?

I measured the rosette of the blooming one and it is about 16" . It is in shade in a rocky infertile soil that has had compost added to it. In a richer soil it might grow larger. It won't get much larger than what you see. It will stay smaller than a A maculata, an aloe that is often mistaken for it and vice versa..

In sunlight it might grow fatter and stouter of leaf, but shorter leaves with a more upright form. less starlike and strappy. This Aloes respond to their conditions and change a lot in response to sunlight. I do not grow things indoors. I will bring some of my aloes inside for a couple of nights but then they go back outdoors. I can not tell you how they will respond to indoor growing. This one will be better than some of the other aloes because it does tolerate some shade..