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Re: Sans.grandis rosea

Dear Hermine,

The whole Sans.trifasciata 'Lilian True" verses 'Slipped Stripes'
controversy has been discussed in this forum in detail already. As
interesting as it is, it doesn't answer Toms original question.

What Tom was asking is: what is the true identity of "Sansevieria grandis
var. rosea"? That appears to be something completely different from the
variegated cultivar Sans.trifasciata 'Lilian True'.

Here is the documentation Norma Lewis gave for "Sansevieria grandis var.
rosea":

Sansevieria sp. HBG #61019 ex Lilian True ex UCBG ex Werner Rauh (cf. Sans.
grandis var. rosea hort.)

Here is my interpretation of what it all means: the Huntington received it
from Lilian True, who received it from the University of California
Botanical Garden, who in turn received it from Werner Rauh in Heidelberg,
Germany.

Cereusly Steve

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•Subject: Re: [SANS] Sans.grandis rosea
•From: hermine isabel
•Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:19:54 -0800
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At 02:28 PM 11/25/99 -0500, Stephen M Jankalski wrote:
>Dear Hermine,
>
>Which "Her" is that?
>
>Ruth Crane, Lilian True, Norma Lewis or Herr Werner Rauh?
>
>I thought you said Ruth Crane made up the name?


Indeed, she did not; i did. i sent the first propagule to Ruth Crane.
Lilian never met Ruth Crane, but Lilian lived about a 20 minute drive from
my home, and we saw each other often.  i think Ruth Crane re-named Lilian
True 'Slipped Stripes' is what i think.  I cannot remember if i sent any
Lilian True to Glasshouse works...I mean, i can remember that i did, if i
think about it, and then, i cannot really say on a witness stand under oath
that i REALLY remember.  In the beginning i used to give Lilian True to
people who were plant nuts, variegation nuts.

I first saw this plant in the middle of Lilian True's living room. I made
serious efforts to fine out where she got it, because she said, hmmmmm,
either it just happened here, or else i got the plant from so and so. but
all the people she thought she got if from, claim they got theirs from HER.
I found her guilty of having a living room mutation, and in any case, named
it and printed it out in a catalog, described and named for her. It is her
piece of posterity.
She was a great person, i miss her very much.

hermine
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