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Re: [SANS] Sanseveria dawei

At 10:53 PM 12/10/98 -0500, Norma Lewis wrote:
>Hermine, my plant is outside on the front porch at this time.  I should go out
>and look at it again, I think your description is right on.  Now another
>question. What color is your namesake 'Stover's Sensation' I have two plants
>with that name?

Norma, at the time i gave that name to a very highly striped form of silver
trifasciata laurentii, and after about five minutes i decided it was an
idiotic name. subsequently I found much better clones of this...but i have
seen the name on various plants i did not recognise.  cultivar names are a
BEAST. many youngsters arising from different species, variegated, look
nearly exactly alike until years go by.
>
>What should be the coloring of S. quineensis 'San Remo' would this come
>variegated?

i think San Remo is also known as Smoked Sausage in the trades and if so,
it is brightly variegated. the colouring starts out green and the yellow
develops slowly. but many of my variegates do this. i am working on some
right now to see if i can isolate them with a knife to get them to come true.

I can't seem to trust any names any more.  I rather check and be
>sure.
>Thank again, Norma Lewis

ah, Norma, all i do is try to keep records of where something came from,
and what that source called it, and to see if i can trace this back to the
primary mother plant. so much of this is obscured either by design or by
loss of continuity of records.  nowadays i name things after the person who
 found them...if we are sure it is not already being circulated. like, by
found, i mean if one variegate showed up in population of normals of a
certain species. keeping track of variegates is work. even among the named
cultivars of Japanese dwarf Raphis palms,  grown long enough in large
enough clumps, real  differences begin to emerge after a decade or so....

i hope this is helpful. what i mean is,. keep a record of where the thing
came from, and see if you can find out how the name got atached to it.

Dave Grigsby once said he needed 6 sided labels in order to record all this
information. i have taken to burying labels at the bottom of pots with such
information, as well as recording it.

herm
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