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Re: [SANS] [Lavranos

At 09:28 AM 7/14/99 -0400, Juan Chahinian wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Hermine you are entirely right about Lavranos, who is a good friend of mine,
>about his dislike of sansevierias.

(AGHAST! but laughing. Frank Horwood also professed to dislike them. Maybe
in those days it was just not DONE , to admit you liked them!)

>  He told me that he became interested only
>after I asked him. This should be taken as a polite gesture of him, because I
>know that he is not crazy about them. However.... he has repeatedly said that
>his "knowledge of sansevierias is literally abysmal", to me and in front of
>other people also, in other words, he does not pretend he knows much about
>them, as other people who also dislike them, do.


Well for a multi faceted and multi lingual fellow, i guess he doesn't need
ego-stroking based on his vegetables, so to speak!
EVERYONE who knew him in the plant world says he is at least as
knowledgeable as ...well, a room full of normal geniuses.

>Then again he just sent me a sansevieria from Somalia that I had lost in the
>move and it happens to be the same one that Thulin sent me! So, if he kept
>that sansevieria in Portugal, where he lives, he must not dislike them all
>that much!


Yes, he was FAKING  HIS DISLIKE OF THEM!


>Again, Lavranos knowledge of succulent plants is more than 50 (or should I
>better say 500) times that our whole discussion group. He has collected more
>than 20,000 plants in Africa, Arabia and Madagascar and published an endless
>array of new species.


Seemingly in his spare time! Manny was nuts about him too....

>So we'll forgive him.....
>as long as he keeps sending sansevierias, of course...


yes, i will be needing a major fix as soon as i  carve my way through my
collection. i am repotting and making notes as i go.  I do not want to thin
about lost plants. grrrrrr.

Hermine
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