How to grow Soap Aloe

Aloe maculata

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Soap aloe Etymology

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

Other names for Soap aloe

African aloe, zebra aloe, aloe saponaria

Aloe saponaria

Footnotes

¹ wikipedia.org

² “The South African Gardeners Survival Manual, by Ann Bonar; First published 1985”

³ Aloe Vera

⁴ Floridata entry on aloe saponaria saponaria/642