Re: [Sansevierias] Please help to identify the plant...

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Mike and Fellow Students, I have decided that although I have a good 
eye or two, it is not my JOB to name things, although more often than 
not I am a very good guesser. and I always said my greatest skill in 
taxonomy was REMOVING BAD NAMES. I have never named anything but a cultivar.

herm

>Herm, you earlier commented on the appearance of some yellow on this 
>plant. I saw that, and just assumed it was evidently a variegated 
>form of, MAYBE, longiflora. There must be several other possible 
>names for Olga's plant - and even hybrid 'no-names'.
>I think when a person asks for a name from a picture it is good for 
>people to hazard a guess and/or ask for more information mainly 
>because there is precious little information available to absolutely 
>key-out correct names. There seems to be a hoard of new sansevierias 
>lately (last couple of years) coming out of Africa, Tanzania, I 
>think), and they largely all look alike to me. I for one don't like 
>to settle for a "collection number". The Asian growers will gladly 
>give one, or two! Ha!



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