These estimates for how long Soap aloe takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.
Average days | Min days | Max days (0)
Average days | Min days | Max days (0)
Average days | Min days | Max days (0)
The genus name Aloe is derived from the Arabic, Alloch or Alloeh2, and translated as Allal in Greek and Hebrew, meaning “shining bitter substance”, which describes aloe sap3.
The species name saponaria (which is the previous name for this plant), comes from the Latin “sapo”, which means soap since the sap makes a soapy lather in water.
Its currently accepted name is Aloe maculata which means speckled or marked.1
African aloe, zebra aloe, aloe saponaria
Aloe saponaria