Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Aloe maculata
Common name
Common Soap Aloe, Soap Aloe
Family
Asphodelaceae
Where found
Urban bushland, mallee shrubland, grassy areas, and moist sites. Coastal north from Jervis Bay. Rarely Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1.5 m high when in flower, usually suckering and forming dense clumps. Leaf margins with brown-tipped, often spiny, teeth. Leaves fleshy, in a basal rosette, 10–30 cm long, 50–120 mm wide, upper surface pale to darker green with white blotches; lower surface paler green without blotches. Flowers red to salmon-orange, tubular, the tube 25–45 mm long, with 6 lobes each 5–10 mm long. Flowers in 20–65-flowered clusters 5–10 cm long. Flowering: June–January. Seeds with one membranous wing.
Family was Aloeaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Aloe~maculata (accessed 27 April 2021)
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