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Re: [SANS] Fw: Sansevieria patens

At 08:40 AM 3/18/99 +1300, Frances and Ted Verrity wrote:
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>: From: Chahinian@aol.com
>: To: verrity@actrix.gen.nz
>: Subject: Sansevieria patens
>: Date: Thursday, 18 March 1999 04:37
>:
>: Hi Ted,
>:
>: I have changed servers and I cannot send mail with the old one, though I
>can
>: receive until the end of the month, so I am writing to you directly.
>:
>: Any (means ALL) sansevieria can be propagated from a leaf cutting, grown
>into
>: a plant that can flower and fruit. They are all self pollinating.


Well, i had HOPED they would be all self-pollinating, and have actually
hand pollinated certain individual plants, over a wide range of times, for
years on end and gotten no seed, whilst certain others produced abundant
fertile seed.

My seedlings somehow look "better" whatever I mean by that...than plants
grown from cuttings, as very young infants.  also the cuttings seem to me
to make a plant which bypasses the "first sprout" stage. a year later, they
all look the same.
Now i am remembering my correspondence with Ed Eby, and his pleasure in
discovering the remnants of a collection of Sansevierias abandoned at Koko
crater in Hawaii. from his description, they were close to being dried
botanical specimens! and i have always held him as a kind of deity for
giving us patens. not only did he do plant-rescue, he was most unselfish in
spreading it around! I say, let us drink  a toast to him!

hermine
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