Re: [Sansevierias] RE: S. sambiranensis?

Ben Sturgis <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:54:39 -0800
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Thank you for sharing your experiences, that was really useful information
and helped clarify things for me.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Hermine Stover <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> At 06:53 AM 2/12/2014, you wrote:
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> >Does it really have red flowers?
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> I got four of them all of which gradually faded in a manner most
> unusual for Sansevierias, which is to say nothing like this ever
> happened to me before. Now there may be some mystical reason why this
> is in Sansevieria, however to me it looks like the plants which used
> to be in Pleomele, except for feebleness. But what do I know, I am
> not a taxonomist. to me if it is a Sansevieria, it is a SINGULARITY
> among them. I am prepared to be called a moron over this issue.
>
> I have never seen a good photo showing its orange flowers actually
> EMERGING from the plant, the photos I have seen show sphagnum moss or
> something obscuring the flower stem.
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> hermine
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