Aloe_fimbrialis
Aloe fimbrialis
Species of succulent plant
Aloe fimbrialis is a succulent plant species from Zambia and possibly Tanzania. A very unusual Aloe as it forms a caudex which can grow to five centimeters in diameter, the leaves grow up to ten centimeters long. The inflorescence can reach 90 centimeters in length and has coral-pink flowers. It usually grows on termite mounds. Aloe fimbrialis is a very rare aloe, first discovered in 1964 and formally described by Susan Carter Holmes in 1996[1] from a herbarium specimens. Graham Williamson rediscovered the species in 2002[2][3] on the border of Zambia and Angola, close to the source of the Zambezi River.
