Swynnerton's Aloe

swynnertonii: named after Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton (1877-1938), well-known naturalist, who first recorded and collected many species of flora and fauna in and around the Chirinda Forest

Perennial herb, growing solitary or suckering to form small groups. The leaves are bright green with numerous pale spots. The inflorescence is a branched panicle with rounded racemes of pendulous orange-red flowers.

Confined to the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique.