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Aloe dichotoma
A tree aloe with beautiful bark and a round canopy.
open semidesert
Spotted on Sep 26, 2007
Submitted on Jan 2, 2015
2 Comments
Congrats! This spotting has been featured as a PN Fact of the Day!
https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/pho...
Project Noah Fact of the Day: The quiver tree indigenous to southern Africa is actually a species of aloe. It is purported to get its name from the indigenous San people who hollow out the tubular branches to form quivers for their arrows.
Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) spotted in Northern Cape, South Africa by PN user Ori Fragman-Sapir:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/113...
Wow,amazing series,beautiful place,congrats and thanks for sharing