Re: [Sansevierias] More Ton's pictures.

Interesting! I'm afraid I treat all my sansevierias the same - as if thy were tropical varieties. When I water them, they all get water even though they might not actually NEED it. I must say, however, my sansevierias (whose native home is a dry, arid climate) look a heck of a lot better than pictures I have seen of the same plants growing in southern Africa that look like a rhinoceros used them as a toothpick. My plants like it when I give them all a nice drink and talk to them. They get all puffed-up and look proud. I think they like to look their best. Right now I think they know something big is coming - Spring! - and they get to go outside in a few more weeks, and maybe get some new dirt to play in!

----- Original Message -----From: Hermine Stover <[email protected]>To: [email protected]: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:45:06 -0000 (UTC)Subject: Re: [Sansevierias] More Ton's pictures.

At 10:20 AM 3/18/2014, you wrote:>>>You mention the word "tropical" in association with Sansevierias >which points up something I was reading a while ago that shows the >diversity of this genus. My article was stating that the flat leafed >sansevierias (like the trifasciatas, masonianas, etc) seem to range >in the tropical regions (give or take), while the more desert like >environments are home to the round-leafed varieties with the round >leaves helping to conserve moisture. These things are interesting to me.



this is true in the whole of the plant world. consider that the cylinder has the smallest surface area ratio to volume of any shape. thus the cactus is often a sphere or a cylinder, whereas jungle plants often have huge leaf surface in relation to their volume.

herm



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