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Aloe maculata 'Yellow Form' (Yellow Soap Aloe) - A stemless plant that can sucker freely or grow solitarily with rosettes that reaches to 12 to 18 inches tall by 2 feet wide. The foliage is dark green with white dashes and spots concentrated near the leaf bases and a reddish tinge towards the tips with margins lined with brown teeth. This yellow form has all of the same characteristics and cultural notes as the species, except the flower color and time of bloom which for us is in December and January while the species typically blooms spring into summer.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant and cold hardy to 20-25 degrees F. This is a very nice aloe that has been used in street median plantings and other locations that don't receive irrigation. In these locations it remains smaller with more red tinting to the foliage but when irrigated occasionally it grows taller, remains greener and flowers better.
We first sold this yellow flowering form of Aloe maculata in 1998. Our original plants of this selection came to use from the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek in the early 1990s with all subsequent plants grown from seed off plants isolated from other aloes. For more information about the species see our listing for Aloe maculata.
Information displayed on this page about Aloe maculata 'Yellow Form' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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