This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: [SANS] Sansevieria club

Sorry Norma,
But as much as I would love to do this I just cannot, as I am starting
up a new business venture and am incredibly busy right now. This is
the reason I have not been taking part in the discussions lately.
Yesterday I was off to Manchester at 10 am home at 9 pm.
I hope to be able to help out later on when things start to run
properly and smoothly if they ever do.

While I think on something I have been meaning to ask about
Sansevieria ehrenbergii. There appears to be two different plants
with this name one from East Africa and one from the Arabian
continent Oman plants being the ones I have seen. The Arabian
plants having a very large base trunk with leaves fanning out in
excess of six feet across and four to five feet tall leaves very large
and fanning outwards arching, extremely thick leaves a true monster
of a plant. Similar to those at the Huntington Norma that you
photographed for me (would be interested if you could find out
where they came from Norma (no rush just next time you go in for
an orange :-)  )
The East Africa plant seems to be (from the plants available in the
UK) Smaller no base trunk and the fan leaves straight and two to
three across, three foot tall. When you see the two plants together
they do look totally different.
Brown in his Monograph writes says about the description :
" Somaliland. Without precise locality, Stace!
The above description is made partially from a photograph and a
living plant cultivated at Kew, both of which were received from
Somaliland, and partially from Schweinfurth's specimen 31.
The plant which K. Schuman has figured and described in his
edition of Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symbolae Physicae, p. 27, t. 13,
fig. 2, as S. ehrenbergii, is, I believe a totally different species,
which cannot be determined until living plants of it are obtained.
Dr. Schweinfurth also states that this plant is a native of Arabia and
German East Africa, but he informed me that he had not compared
living plants from these two regions with each other nor with the
Nubian plant, I therefore have very much doubt  as to the
correctness of this identification, as from the evidence at present
before me, the range of the various species, so far as known seems
limited."

So here Brown thought there were two different species. Has
anyone done any work on these lately.
Must find time to go through Juan's journals and see if they are
mentioned.

Latha math an-Drasda  John

           "Duine e an bruadair an Leumadair"

http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/John.Gamesby-AZTEKIUM/index.html
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index