Aloe ribauensis 4

Description:

Plants have short bottle-brush type racemes that curve downwards (like in Aloe decurva), but individual flowers are more like those of Aloe mawii (dark purple filaments and pedicels with swollen upper part). Flower bracts are much longer than any of these species, however. The ecology is very peculiar for Aloe: undeep soils on rocky slopes with almost permanently water trickling down. A very wet place for Aloe ! 1000 m.a.s., in open vegetation, close to wild african bamboo forest.