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Aloe 'Hot Flash' – A very showy hybrid aloe to 3 feet tall by as wide with a mostly solitary rosette of 2- to 3-foot-long gray-green slightly upturned lanceolate leaves that have long narrowing tips and light colored teeth along the margins. In late fall into early winter appear the stout branching inflorescence with multiple stems rising vertically 4 feet from the plants crown bearing tight overlapping dark red-orange buds held in a downward position that turn yellow as they open from the bottom up - a very stunning sight!
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and water occasionally to infrequently. The hardiness of this plant is as yet unknown but will likely be hardy to short duration temperatures down to the mid 20s° F. A very attractive hybrid aloe that should do well in most coastal California gardens.
Aloe 'Hot Flash' is a selected seedling that was the result of open pollination of Aloe aculeata growing at Jeff Chemnick's amazing Aloes in Wonderland garden. The seedling first bloomed in January 2016 and was named by Jeff Chemnick when he first saw the fiery combination of red, orange, and yellow flowers. We got our first cutting of this beautiful aloe in 2016 and worked up enough to begin selling it in 2024.
The information about Aloe 'Hot Flash' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
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