I've just done a Google image search on Aloe Vera and the images that came
up included varieties which had the broad leaves and ones with long spikes
at 90 deg. The image which seems to resemble mine is this one:
http://davarree.free.fr/Aloe.Vera.JPG


Just found another which just about looks like mine:
http://laurenharman.tripod.com/portf...mages/aloe.jpg
except the spikes on mine are even more pronounced at 180 deg. And the
problem of it flopping over was caused by those huge spikes at the top as
mine are bending in the same way!