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elephant ears the plant Maui Gold Elephant Ear – Plant DetectivesMaui Gold Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta 'Maui Gold') Maui Gold Elephant Ear is a bright tropical foliage plant valued for its chartreuse to golden yellow leaves, bold texture, and strong warm season growth. Its large heart shaped foliage brings a lighter, more colorful look to patios, poolside plantings, large containers, moist garden beds, and tropical style landscapes. This selection is especially useful for adding contrast against dark foliage,
Maui Gold Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta 'Maui Gold')
Maui Gold Elephant Ear is a bright tropical foliage plant valued for its chartreuse to golden yellow leaves, bold texture, and strong warm-season growth. Its large heart-shaped foliage brings a lighter, more colorful look to patios, poolside plantings, large containers, moist garden beds, and tropical-style landscapes. This selection is especially useful for adding contrast against dark foliage, deep green plantings, and brightly colored annuals. With warmth, rich soil, steady moisture, and sun to partial shade, Maui Gold Elephant Ear creates a lush, high-impact display in indoor and outdoor spaces.
Distinctive Features
Maui Gold Elephant Ear produces large chartreuse to golden yellow leaves that brighten the landscape and stand out from darker green or purple foliage plants. The foliage is typically broad, heart-shaped, and held on sturdy petioles, creating the bold texture associated with Colocasia. Color is often strongest in bright light when moisture is consistent, while afternoon shade can help protect the foliage in very hot locations. Flowers may appear occasionally as a spathe and spadix, but this plant is grown primarily for its colorful foliage, tropical texture, and warm-season presence.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in full sun to partial shade, with afternoon shade helpful in very hot climates to protect the bright foliage from scorch.
- Soil: Prefers fertile, humusy, organically rich soil that stays consistently moist while still supporting healthy root growth.
- Water: Performs best with regular moisture during active growth and should not be allowed to dry out completely in warm weather.
- USDA Zones: Hardy outdoors in USDA Zones 8 to 11 in protected conditions, while colder climates should treat it as a seasonal container plant or overwinter the tubers indoors.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 3 to 5 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide in favorable outdoor conditions, while container-grown plants may stay smaller.
- Habit: Forms an upright to spreading clump with broad golden foliage rising from the base on sturdy petioles.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a bright foliage focal point in large containers, patios, poolside plantings, courtyard beds, tropical-style landscapes, or moist garden areas where its golden leaves can stand out.
- Container Planting: Grow in a large decorative pot where its chartreuse to gold foliage can provide strong color and be moved or protected before cold weather.
- Moist Garden: Plant in consistently moist beds, rain gardens, or pond-edge settings where its love of moisture can support strong growth.
- Tropical Garden: Pair with cannas, bananas, caladiums, gingers, coleus, and dark-leaved elephant ears to create a lush warm-season display.
- Mixed Border: Use in large mixed beds where its bright foliage can add contrast, texture, and tropical scale behind lower plants.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water regularly during active growth to keep the soil consistently moist, especially in containers and hot summer weather.
- Mulching: Apply mulch around outdoor plants to conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and reduce weed competition.
- Fertilizing: Feed during the active growing season with a balanced fertilizer to support large foliage and vigorous growth.
- Wind Protection: Site in a sheltered location because strong wind can tear or damage the large ornamental leaves.
- Overwintering: Lift and store tubers or move containers indoors before frost in climates where the plant is not reliably hardy.
- Leaf Cleanup: Remove yellowing, torn, or frost-damaged leaves as needed to keep the plant looking clean and encourage fresh growth.
Why Choose Maui Gold Elephant Ear?
- Golden Foliage: Displays large chartreuse to golden yellow leaves that brighten containers, patios, and tropical-style garden beds.
- Bold Texture: Produces broad heart-shaped foliage that brings tropical scale and lush structure to warm-season plantings.
- Color Contrast: Pairs beautifully with dark elephant ears, purple foliage, deep green plants, and brightly colored annuals.
- Fast Warm-Season Growth: Responds quickly to heat, water, and fertility with strong foliage production during the growing season.
- Container Friendly: Works well in large patio pots where it can be featured outdoors in summer and protected before frost.
Maui Gold Elephant Ear is an excellent choice for gardeners who want bold tropical foliage with a bright, sunny color effect. Its golden leaves, large clumping habit, moisture-loving growth, and strong seasonal presence make it a standout plant for containers, patios, moist garden beds, and dramatic warm-season landscape designs.
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★★★★★ 5
Absorbent and Dependable!
Size: Size 5 (31 Count)
I absolutely LOVE these diapers! My son is a heavy wetter, and I was very skeptical about these diapers when I read some reviews saying they leaked. For reference, he is 16 months old and 22 is lbs. On one of the hottest days we've had so far, he drank so much that he peed and it just waterfalled out of his diaper onto my lap - while our taxes were being done. That diaper had been changed about an hour prior! He was wearing a Huggies that day, which we've used pretty religiously without issue - though we had started experiencing overnight leaks.
I remembered really liking the Mama Bear wipes when he was a NB, he needs something sturdier now with big baby boy poops - but definitely remembered loving the wipes, and that they were gentle on his sensitive eczema skin. After many reviews, I decided to order these, oh my gosh what an amazing diaper! I will say, the only flaw I have noticed is if you pull the leg liner too hard it tears a tad, but out of a whole pack - that happened once. Otherwise, PHENOMENAL! Our first try was at night, and my son slept for about 8 hours, we had a brief reprieve from erupting molars - so it was a full night's sleep it was tested on. There were no leaks, the diaper was squishy and heavy, but not the way the diapers we would normally use were. I'd had Huggies' diapers elastics snap in the morning due to the amount in his diaper, these held shape pretty well I was so impressed. I've ordered another pack, as well as the regular Gentle Touch diapers to compare their functionality. Overall though, very happy!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Good Quality and extremely Affordable!
Size: Size 6 (100 Count), Size: Size 6 (100 Count)
I was tired of paying $60+ for a pack of diapers and we have used Mama Bear Water Wipes for years with our kids, so decided to give these a try. Soft, super lightweight, and holds very similar capacity as the Pampers we’ve used for years. No smell, no rashes, and no rips or tears in diapers. Great quality at a low cost — I would absolutely recommend trying if you’re looking for affordable option without sacrificing quality. We’ve had a subscription for about 3 months now and really like these!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Would give them 5 stars if they were TCF
Size: Size 5 (124 Count)
These diapers fit my baby well. Many brands I’ve tried seem to be too tight in the waist/bulky on the bottom for my baby, but not these. I wish they were TCF, but as far as I can tell they are only ECF, so they’re a backup diaper for me as I try to buy TCF. The only other drawback is that the ruffles are pretty small so that’s less leakage/blowout protection but it hasn’t seemed to cause much of a problem for us. They’re pretty soft and stretchy. I like that they have a wetness indicator.
Pros:
Price
Soft
Stretchy
Good fit for my delightfully chunky baby
Wetness indicator
Not bulky
ECF*
Cons:
*Not TCF
Small ruffles
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2024
★★★★★ 1
A Catastrophic Failure in Diaper Form
Size: Size 2 (184 Count)
I’m not sure if I just got a bad batch or if these diapers are always this horrendous, but I will not spend another dime to find out—and I strongly urge you to do the same. I loved this brand’s Gentle version. They were everything you want in a diaper: super absorbent, well-fitted, no blowouts. I was their biggest fan. So, when the Gentles weren’t available, I thought, Surely the Plush will be just as good, maybe even better!
I have never been more wrong.
Let’s start with the tabs. These things are folded up like some kind of sick joke, requiring you to unfold them in three separate, precise movements. Miss a step? The tab rips off in your hand, leaving you holding a now-worthless scrap of disappointment. This happened to me. It happened to my mother. It will happen to you.
But wait, there’s more! The side wings are a disaster. The right wing is disproportionately longer than the left, which means everything in this diaper is permanently listing to the right like a sinking ship. The left side? Practically non-existent. As a result, I have experienced more blowouts with these diapers than in my daughter’s entire life combined. I don’t know what sorcery was used to engineer a diaper that actively funnels poop toward the worst possible escape route, but here we are.
And because I was foolishly optimistic, I bought a month’s supply. So now I'm locked in a psychological battle with my own stubbornness. I could throw them out, but that would be admitting defeat. So instead, I soldier on, knowing each diaper change is another step into madness.
Please, learn from my mistake. You don’t have to live like this. Let me be your tribute, the sacrificial parent who suffered so you don’t have to. We’re already running on fumes as newborn parents—don’t make it worse by willingly subjecting yourself to these truly useless diapers that will rob you of your last remaining shreds of sanity.
Save yourself. Run.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
★★★★★ 5
DON'T SLEEP ON THESE DIAPERS! (but your baby should)
Size: Size 3 (40 Count)
I was skeptical at first trying out the plush version of this diaper because I thought the mama bear gentle touch was just OK and you can find a better diaper for the same price point. I saw these on prime day for the same price as the gentle touch and said why not. I was very, very impressed. They are soft and flexible with a satin-like exterior; similar to the feel of a hello bello diaper. The plush version definitely feels more quality than the papery gentle touch ones. I first tested the absorbency using 12 oz of water, waited ten minutes and dabbed dabbed dabbed. Seriously NO moisture! In comparison to the gentle touch diaper that had obvious moisture after the same test. I put them to use on my baby, who just for reference is 19lbs, for an overnight and the diaper did not leak and was only damp in the morning, not wet! Amazing. She is a moderate wetter but I still think that performance is great because in comparison to gentle touch, the diaper was wet on the inside after only three hours and I had to consistently use diaper cream so rash wouldn't develop; I would have never used the gentle touch as an overnight diaper. Seriously, for .21 a diaper for size three these diapers are a steal. DONT SLEEP ON THIS DEAL, PICK UP SOME MAMA BEAR PLUSH DIAPERS!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2024
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