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Re: All green spider plant?

It's not a corn plant. It's a spider plant. The all green ones are harder to find. it's scientific name is Chlorophytum Comosum
(common spider plant) and the variegated ones are Chlorophytum Comosum Variegatum or Vittatum. Variegatum has yellow edges and
Vittatum has white edges. I've never heard of all green corn plants but perhaps there are some. I have a corn plant here but
that's quite different from spider plant. The corn plant is a fragrant draceana, Draceana fragrans massangeana to be exact. When
young they might look like a spider plant but with age they develop a trunk and they do not produce little plantlets on stems like
spider plants do. There are all green draceanas that look a lot like spider plant when young because they haven't developped a
trunk yet. If your all green plant looks like a spider plant and produces little plantlets like a spider plant, then that is
propably what you have. You have to admit the all green form is pretty attractive. I'm not really fond of spider plants,
especially the variegated ones, but I really don't mind the all green ones. I still have both though. They are my main little air
filters in the house amongst all the other plants I have.
Perhaps check out the mother plant at your husband's grandmother's place. That would give you a good clue as to what it is. Or
call her up and ask if the plantlets came from the base of the mother plant (near the stem-which would be some type of draceana or
other type of plant) or if they came from the tips of trailing stems (which could most likely be spider plant but not
neccesarely). I hope this answers your question. Now I shall go chck out that URL you gave me : )
Helga

Lady Penguin wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Was wondering about your all green spider plant.  Is it what is more commonly known as a corn plant?  I've got a couple of all
> green plants that I got babies from at my husband's grandmother's house, and they look, in all aspects just like the spider
> plants, but with no stripes.  Just curious.
>
> Kelly Sutton
> The Domesticated Penguin
> http://www.theigloo.dyn.ml.org
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