Re: [Sansevierias] TWISTY

At 04:40 AM 1/21/2014, you wrote:
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>Hermine I went into the group library and looked 
>in your book Schweinfurthii pg 34 and ripped the 
>picture (not the best in the world). This 
>clearly shows a round leaf plant with a 
>channel  so I don't think this is schweinfurthii/erytraeae.


Me neither. This was bought from that fellow in 
Germany whose plants came from Horst 
Pfennig...who said that I had to watch it over 
names from him. That book has MANY names which 
have been clarified since I got these plants, 
before 1983. Nobody should be relying on it for current names.

hermine


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>Sansevieria schweinfurthii Täckh. & Drar, Fl. 
>Egypt 3: 305 (1954), contrary to Art. 36.1 ICBN. This name is a synonym.
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><http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=287096>Sansevieria 
>erythraeae<http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=287096> 
>Mattei, Boll. Stud. Inform. Giardino Colon. 4: 170 (1918).
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>On 20 January 2014 23:47, The Silent Seed 
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>If you want to see twisty leaves - check out KOKO.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mlaforest05 <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
>To: Sansevierias 
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>I did not recognize the description and picture 
>John G. posted we seem to now be calling S. 
>erythraeae aka S. schweinfurthii. I do have this 
>plant, and my clone has no channels or grooves 
>which I think shows in the attached picture. 
>This species, according to J. Chahinian in his 
>latest book might show a "round, shallow 
>channel". Chahinian also says the leaves show 
>"several longitudinal deeply impressed lines", 
>but that could come from specimens that are dry. 
>The leaves are normally upright and do not 'weep'.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hermine Stover 
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>Sent: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:01:26 -0000 (UTC)
>Subject: Re: [Sansevierias] ID
>At 01:41 PM 1/20/2014, you wrote:
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>How about a pic ?
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>there is a pic in my book somewhere which, after a brief search, I
>believe has become buried in a drawer full of dog pedigrees. I know there
>is a drawing of it with a broken leaf. the leaves are cylindrical and
>do  not fan at all, they are slightly wiggly but almost entirely
>vertical.
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>hermine
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>Cheers  John
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