Sansevieria Gallery — Snake Plants
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Plant & Photo: Robert Streul, USA
A grouping of sansesvierias. The plant in the middle is Sansevieria cylindrica ‘Striated’. Far-left is S. cylindrica with two stately blooms pushing 36 inches tall!! The flowers open only during the night, so it is difficult to get a good picture. Far-right in the photo is S. robusta.
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Plant, Photo and Comment: Robert Streul, USA Sansevieria kirkii var pulchra flowers are beginning to open. and if they would only open all at the same time, this would be way beyond spectacular. I took a tape measure tonight and held it just above the inflorescence and it measures 12 inches from flower tip to flower tip. Now I completely understand why people go gaga over the flowering of this species. The flowers open only for one day but there are many more to come. © Photograph Copyright of The Amateurs’ Digest and Robert Streul, USA
Plant, Photo and Comment: Robert Streul, USA
Plant, Photo and Comment: Robert Streul, USA
Sansevieria kirkii var pulchra
Plant, Photo and Comment: Robert Streul, USA
Sansevieria kirkii var pulchra flowers are beginning to open. and if they would only open all at the same time, this would be way beyond spectacular. I took a tape measure tonight and held it just above the inflorescence and it measures 12 inches from flower tip to flower tip. Now I completely understand why people go gaga over the flowering of this species. The flowers open only for one day but there are many more to come.
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Sansevieria aff. concinna ‘Lav. 5949‘
The flowering began around 7:30 this evening, August 9, 2005. It is very pretty and smells so good.
Plants, Comment & Photos: Robert Streul, USA
These sansevierias for many years had been sold and labeled as S. sp. (Socotra-LAV 309 ), for the large form, and S. sp. (Socotra-LAV 307) for the small form. Based on the following information, quoted in part from an article by Juan Chahinian, the plants should be named as Sansevieria sp. ‘Lavranos 5949‘ (for the large form) and S. sp. ‘Lavranos 5933‘ for the small form.
“With all the information on hand, one is able to draw the following conclusions: a) These plants may not be called Sansevieria Lav. 309 or Lav. 307 since these are sequential numbers that were assigned by I.S.I. to plants collected by Lavranos, whose numbers in 1967 had not three but four digits. b) These sansevierias come from Mozambique not Kenya. In fact, they were collected in (word not readable) which is located less than 150 and 250 miles respectively from Beira, type locality (word not readable) Sansevieria concinna.
The reason for this confusion may well be explained by the fact that from March through June 1967, Lavranos was engaged in a collection trip to the Island of Socotra and went on a collection trip to Mozambique in July and August of that same year, making it (word not readable) for I.S.I. to assume that these sansevierias came from Socotra instead of Mozambique.
To summarize, the sansevierias in question should be called Sansevieria sp. ‘Lavranos 5949 ‘ from Mozambique, for the large form and Sansevieria sp . ‘Lavranos 5933′ from Mozambique, for the dwarf one, until formally described. This is the most plausible identification for these plants at present.
Whether any of these Sansevierias or the ones from Lake Sibaya, or all three are Sansevieria concinna, remains to be seen. Their affinity to it is quite apparent.”
Until a formal description is presented, I accept Juan’s information as gospel and now have the plants labeled per this information.
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