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Aloe esculenta
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Lusaka, cultivatedfrom material collected Ngonye Falls;
Aug 1991
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, cultivated from material collected Ngonye Falls;
Jul 2008
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, cultivated from material collected Ngonye Falls;
Jul 2008
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, cultivated from material collected Ngonye Falls;
Aug 2008
Photo: Mike Bingham
Prickles on leaf underside;
Lusaka cultivated from material collected Ngonye Falls;
May 2009
Photo: Mike Bingham
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Stem to 40 cm long, often decumbent, suckering to form dense clumps; leaves densely spotted and the lower surface with scattered prickles towards the leaf tips. Inflorescence 3‒5-branched; racemes laxly flowered. Outer perianth segments free to half way. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: |
The only recorded locality in Zambia is at Sioma. The general habitat is recorded as dry woodland. In the early 1990s it was found only on a boulder strewn plain below the Ngonye Falls on the Zambezi River near Sioma, but it has not been seen recently. Cultivated plants in Lusaka are known to have been collected from the Ngonye Falls, and it is likely that collectors have depleted the population. Conservation status: Data deficient, possibly extinct in the wild in Zambia. |
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| Habitat: | In Zambia amongst boulders below a waterfall, elsewhere in dry woodland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Jul - Aug |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Angola, Botswana, Namibia |
| National distribution: | B |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | W |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | Extinct? |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 25 June 2015 |
| Literature: |
Carter, S. (2001). Aloaceae Flora Zambesiaca 12(3) Pages 83 - 84. |
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