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[SANS] Reply to Diana

Hi Diana,

I am back. I was back from Germany but left for Argentina for the Holidays
and am going again tomorrow to Germany for yet another treatment for
"macular degeneration' in my eyes. Will be back in ten days.

As far as Sansevieria sp. 'Pf. 115' I am afraid to tell you that on my
second visit to the late Dr. Horst Pfennig in Germany, I asked him about
this plant and he was very surprised about it. Pf, should stand for
Pfennig. He said he never heard about the plant or its number and he asked
me to send him a plant, which I did. Upon receiving it he confirmed his
surprise and total unfamiliarity with the plant or name.

It seems it is one of the mysterious unsolved puzzles as  is S. sp. 'Bally
30', totally identical to S. sp. 'Bally 12681', the latter having
collection data and the former's origin totally untraceable. When I
mentioned the former to Lemuel Higgs of Abbey Garden he said that "now"
there is a 'Bally XXX' (I cannot remember the number). It seems to me that
somebody, certainly not Lem, found a mislabeled plant and soon applied the
label's content  to the plant.
Yet another similar situation happened with some of the labels called Sp.#1
through to Sp. *6. I vaguely recall the latter one as S. aethiopica *6.
Manny Singer explained to me that very convincingly. When abbey Garden
moved from Reseda to Carpinteria, they did not pay too much attention to
Sansevierias and they ended up under a bench. In order to maintain some
order and reference they labeled them #1 through #6 or may be more and
there is where the numbers came from.

B. Juan Chahinian
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