Re: [Sansevierias] S. masoniana varieations

"Hermine Stover [email protected] [Sansevierias]" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2014 14:59:37 -0700
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>Oh surgery is required. if the first plant is from chemically 
>induced variegation, I dunno what will happen, but I do know from 
>growing all kinds of variegated things, that reversions to normal 
>need to be pruned with extreme prejudice.


hermine


>Next to the trifasciatas which have so many variations, I think S. 
>masoniana is my favorite sansevieria. Masoniana, as well, can have 
>many variable forms when it is growing in the variegated mode. When 
>the variegation is mericlinal, you never know what the pups might 
>look like. Pictured here is one clump of three masoniana leaves. It 
>started with one beaufifully marked yellow variegated leaf which in 
>turn threw a less variegated, but nevertheless variegated, leaf 
>which threw a wild, nearly all green leaf. Next spring I will assess 
>the clump and see if surgery is required.