Aloe succotrina flowering suspect colour

The narrow leaves pointing up, particularly in the centre of each dense rosette in the clump, is a regular feature of Aloe succotrina. The cone-shaped racemes are the seasonal floral enhancements.

Slender conical, single racemes are typical of A. succotrina. Branching into two-raceme panicles may happen, maybe more likely when the conditions in the garden are favourable as here. The perianths are usually glossy red or deep to reddish salmon. But the colour of the open flowers in picture is not as expected! 

The nodding open flowers are not only paler than the normally unicoloured raceme, they are yellowed! This may indicate an inherited genetic admixture from hybridisation. Garden plants are more easily suspected of a less pure ancestral line than dyed in the wool specimens... or wild ones in the veld! That is if the metaphors are not getting hopelessly mixed up here (Frandsen, 2017; Smith, et al, 2017; Van Wyk and Gericke, 2007; Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Reynolds, 1974; Jeppe, 1969; iNaturalist).