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elephant ear plant leaves going yellow 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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★★★★★ 3
Does help, but needs constant adjusting during walk
I watch so many Cesar television shows on how to correct dog behavior and see him use a Yellow version on the shows. I see there is not a yellow version of this lead available on the site so that was irritating because I wanted to get what he uses exactly from his show. Anyway, thanks to another reviewer, I knew to buy the "large" size of this for my 40lb dog because she made the mistake of buying the regular smaller size this site defaults to choose. The "large" is not very long, only 2 ft but maybe the rope is thicker.
The rope is a light stretchy material so it does not chafe your hand, but it still burns after a while of your dog pulling and you trying to keep it from pulling. I could not imagine trying to use this on a dog bigger than 40 pounds because it feels like it is at it's max strength when I am dealing with mine.
My dog likes to eat anything and everything on the ground as we walk so I needed this for the option of the muzzle control feature of the rope. As others have said it acts like the gentle leader halter.
Pros: The adjustable slide to "secure" the loop size over your dog's head, behind it's ears is easy to move up and down.
The black metal ring works well when you use the second circle to loop over your dog's muzzle. Every time she tries to open her mouth to eat something on the ground she can't.
CONS: The adjustable slide to "secure" the loop is too easy to move and therefore I have to constantly push it back down on my dog's head while walking. I am trying to find a clamp of some sort I can clip behind this slider to keep it in place once my dog starts moving.
As soon as it begins to slide up from movement, causing the neck hoop opening to widen and she is back to pulling hard.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2022
★★★★★ 5
Such a great tool!
Size: 48" One Size Fits Most, Color: Black
I have had this product for a week, and I have nothing but good things to say about it! I debated for a couple of days as to whether or not to purchase it because the price seemed a tiny bit much for what looked like such a simple item. Now I know it’s that very same simplicity that makes this such an effective tool! Best money I could have spent on my dog!
I’ve had my rescue Patterdale Terrier for a little under 3 months and I have quickly found out he is far from being perfect. It has taken a lot of time to begin working on correcting some of his problems, one at a time. Like many dogs, he also pulls when being walked. So what did I do as a regular person in need of quick dog tips? I searched up Cesar Millan videos on YouTube. 😂
I had purchased a Flexi leash two weeks after adopting my dog, and he broke it within another two weeks. While it was disappointing when I first found out, I now see it as a blessing in disguise. Paying close attention on YouTube, I noticed common features in all of the videos where the owners had pulling problems. Most owners in these videos had Flexi leashes, and the dog is always walking in front of the owner, not besides them. All Cesar uses to start making a change are leads just like this one. He never explicitly promotes his lead on his show, but after seeing the immediate increased control using such a simple tool, I decided to look online and found this. So I figured, why not?
My dog is 28lbs, so he isn’t big enough to overpower and drag me during a walk. After the Flexi broke, I resorted to using a regular hook-through-the-collar leash. The pulling problem was still there, and would only get worst if we came across a squirrel. As soon as we started using this lead, he’s become much more responsive to my corrections. As soon as he is too far in front of me, even without actually pulling, I give it a quick, gentle tug and a “Chh!” and he‘s learned that he needs to slow down. If he actually pulls and won’t immediately respond to my correction, we’ll sometimes stop walking altogether until he sits, calms down, and realizes that we’ll only walk at my pace. This lead has helped tremendously and there’s rarely ever any tension on the lead when walking now. It’s hard to believe it has only been a week since I’ve started using it, and I don’t believe I’ll go back to using the traditional leash unless absolutely necessary. I would definitely purchase this again!
And no, I have not been paid by anyone, nor was I sent this by any company to review it. Just a regular girl who is so happy to have found something that is actually seeming to work!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018
★★★★★ 5
Worked from day 1
Size: 48" One Size Fits Most, Color: Black
This leash is the best thing I’ve ever bought for my dog. He’s 1 year and 4 months old, and I’ve bought at least five different harnesses since I got him, including very expensive ones like DogfriendlyCo. He pulls with every single one of them.
I bought this leash a while ago, but I only used it once because I was afraid he would get hyperactive and choke himself. He hated it at first and tried really hard to get out of it. Today, after four months, I decided to give it another try and omg! This is the first time I’ve been able to walk him without feeling anxious or embarrassed. He walked by my side the whole time, and the leash stayed loose. Iwould only pull a little when he wanted to go ahead of me. I could tell he enjoyed the walk and so did I.
I’ve tried it a couple more times just to make sure it wasn’t luck, but this thing really works. Highly recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Only “tough” toy my Doberman loves!
Pattern Name: Octopus
Not indestructible, but last a good long while. Definitely worth the money and lasts longer than any other plush toys we’ve had (which is all my dog will play with). It’s for sure my Dobermans favorite, I’ve ordered probably 10 at this point. He gets the stuffing out after a month or two and we open a new one. He’s picky with toys, either destroys them or ignores them, but he never gets bored with his octopus! 🐙 He sneaks one outside once in a while and the neighbor’s dogs steal it. They love it too and thankfully can’t destroy before I retrieve it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Great for a Pitball
Pattern Name: Octopus
I have a Pitbull and she absolutely loves this toy. I always wait a while before giving a review. She has had this toy Since the beginning of July and she is still playing with this toy. It does have little holes but it is still going. She loves it. Playing tug of war with her. I also take it and wrap it around her collar and watch her dance around trying to get it out(I don't leave it there long). This a great buy. I also bought and extra one so when this one does finally dies she will have another. The material is strong, The sound is about normal for a squeaky toy.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2025
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