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[SANS] On names of sansevierias

Hello,

Just to test if everyone is alive I am commenting on a name that I often
see incorrectly pronounced and/or written. This is:
Sansevieria sp. 'Mason's Congo'.
I don't think Mason ever owned the, at that time, Congo.
The correct name is therefore:
Sansevieria sp. 'Mason Congo'.

Also incorrect is: Sansevieria sp. 'Mason Zaire', as it appears (or
appeared, if they have now changed it) in Huntigton Botanic Garden's Desert
Greenhouse, since Congo was the name of the country at the time the plant
wast collected. I indicated that to the curator a few years ago and
surprise.... now the name of the country is Congo again!

Juan
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