Some interesting details there... Where did you see this was the national plant of Namibia? The plant that tends to show up on their national coat of arms (plus a couple of local ones) and the currency is Welwitschia

http://www.gov.na/national-sym...
http://www.orusovo.com/symbols...
http://www.info-namibia.com/ac...

The only aloe I've heard of being used as an official symbol in Namibia is Aloe littoralis (coat of arms for Windhoek) which appeared in addition to Welwitschia on the 5 cent coin.

http://currencies.wikia.com/wi...

This is all highly random, I realize, but now I'm curious about where the quiver aloe shows up as a national plant. It certainly is a most striking aloe.

*edit: Now that I've looked more carefully at the rest of the money, I can see the quiver aloe on a different coin (along with Welwitschia). Cool! Another random factoid: this plant was on the money.

http://currencies.wikia.com/wi...

Here's where I got it. I just found it to be a very interesting plant and did some random research. Hard to tell what's legit or not.
https://www.arkive.org/quiver-...

Thank you very much. It looks for real. The original source appears here (pdf download), along with some interesting details about climate change.

https://portals.iucn.org/libra...

I want an aloe refrigerator!

We have seen these most interesting trees in Namibia on a month long trip coming through this area in 2007.
Köcher Bäume or Quiver trees.

Thank you for the pictures. They are quite striking. Those trees are amazing plants to survive in such a dry and desolate place, without any summer rain at all in many cases. Parts of Baja California are like that, and they have their own megaflora survivors. I would love to see the quiver aloes first hand.