Re: [Sansevierias] S. 'Socotra' - a Glasshouse invention?

Thanks - I will ask them to remove it from my order.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Hermine Stover <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> >Jude Listen to DA MAN!
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> Mike is not known for saying bad things about people and stuff.
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> >Judging some of these plants using pictures is very risky business
> >as you know. My opinion of the subspicata you have pictured here is
> >that it very well could be subspicata. One of the characteristics of
> >this species is that it has a subulate tip which means it has a bit
> >of a "curl" at the very tip - like some people can curl their
> >tongue. For example, S. parva has a subulate leaf tip. Subspicata
> >has a very tiny curl... but its there!
> > Other characteristics of subspicata are that it has petiolate
> > leaves which might not all look like carbon copies as to shape. The
> > smooth leaf surface is said to feel like "ground glass". The
> > darkness of the leaves in your picture mask the typical green/gray
> > stripes of sansevierias, but I think this might be just a lack of light.
> > Jude, even if Glasshouse does have the correct longiflora in
> > their picture, I would not trust them to send the right plant.
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