Golden Toothed Aloe is a rosette-forming succulent that can create a mounded colony of close rosettes spreading up to 3-4 feet wide. Its fleshy leaves are bright green when grown in light shade, but turn orange when in full sun, making quite a display. Yellow to creamy white teeth line the edges of each leaf which glow when backlit. In summer, 2-foot-tall spikes of tubular orange flowers rise above the rosettes, attracting bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies to the show. In hot deserts, it needs afternoon shade to prevent burning the leaves. This vigorous succulent makes a unique small-scale groundcover, and looks great in beds and borders, rock gardens, succulent gardens, cactus gardens, and Mediterranean gardens. It is also happy in decorative containers.
