I just got one recently myself. It is such a gorgeous plant. Cinnamon does what for roots? Anti fungal?

Exactly vitorama - antifungal.

Pretty cool seeing these guys growing out in nature like that.

That was a great thread Next O

My ehrenbergii doesn't look like the husky ones in most of those photos, it's more like the narrow-leaved one toward the bottom. What's yours look like, NextO?? Pics!

Russ

Nice! Now I know 'where the beef is'!! Those leaves are much thicker than my plant of ehrenbergii. The immature plant Chahinian pictures in his book is very thick-leaved and would undoubtedly grow up to look like yours, so this makes me wonder if my plant is something else. It's always possible with IDs.

I'll find one tomorrow and post a pic if I have time.

Russ

The Doris Pfennig has daintier leaves, same growth pattern (it's a pinguicula hybrid) but a little greener in color. I don't think it has the white bloom.

It does have white flowers NextO, here's an ISS link showing it in flower.

www.sansevieria-international.org/PDF-files/article_dorispfennin.pdf

I have a gracilis 'Pfennig's Form'. His name comes up fairly often in sansevierias.

Russ

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Excellent, informative article Russ, thank you! Yes, white flowers indeed. I was referring to the waxy coating on the leaves, seems to scratch off with a fingernail. On grapes and blueberries it's a wild yeast, on Sansevieria what is it? Wax to keep the leaf from transpiring in heat? It's so interesting to look at a leaf with a 10X jeweler's loupe....

Oh, of course NextO, I misinterpreted 'bloom'. My error. I haven't noticed that on my pings, so I'll check it out. It could have a function of holding moisture in the leaf, that makes perfect sense. Now all I need is one of those jeweler's loupes...:0)

Some sans have another kind of bloom, a light gray dusty material that will wipe off if you touch the leaf. I don't know the function of that either.

Russ

Russ, it must be the same as Dudleya's & Echeverria's white dust - it protects them from the sun, right? Dudleyas grow in pretty harsh conditions here, hanging off the side of rocky inclines, cliffs & canyons. I looked to see if I could find out more, it's called "farina."

Russ, I saw a photo of a plant ID'd as S. affinis ehrenbergii with more slender leaves. Could yours be that one? S. affinis ehrenbergii

Yes, that's just like mine... if I could find it, I should have several! I'll keep looking, so far I've only found robusta's that look very similar. Too many sans!!!

Russ

Did you know that Tanzania’s
Olduvai Gorge – where the Leaky’s discovered some of the oldest fossils of
early humans – was unintentionally named after the Maasai word for Sansevieria Ehrenbergii? I copied the Wikipedia write up below. Fascinating plant! It makes me want to get one although I really don't have the room.

“History

In 1911, the German entomologist Wilhelm Kattwinkel, while searching for
butterflies, stumbled into a gorge. He asked the indigenous Maasai people what the
gorge was called. They did not understand what he was saying and thought he was
referring to the plants Sansevieria ehrenbergii, to which they responded
oldupaai. Kattwinkel misinterpreted and mispronounced what they were
saying by referring to the gorge as "Olduvai Gorge".

Human Use

The Maasai have used S. ehrenbergii for antiseptics, natural
bandages, rope, baskets, roofs and clothes. During the 1970s, paleoanthropologist
Bill Montagne was working in Olduvai Gorge and became injured. He received
treatment in the form of a natural bandage made from S. ehrenbergii,
after which he was so impressed, he began pharmaceutical research.”

Very interesting info Sanny, but disappointing as well since 'olduvai' isn't really a word in any language. One would think it would be renamed with a real and more appropriate name, but then it does make for a cool conversation item about sansevierias.

I never did find an ehrenbergii when I checked back in May, but it's very hard to find specific ones with so many sans in my collection. I've been sorting and categorizing my aroids in a big way during the mild temps of Feb and plan on tackling the sans very soon. Hopefully I'll find an ehrenbergii.

Thanks, Russ

I can't imagine anything more fun than to sort through and categorize a large collection of sansevierias! I hope you find all your ehrenbergiis and other lost treasures. Hope you find new pups as well.

Oh, poor you, Russ. LOL! I wish I had so many Sans I had to sort and catorgorize through them all!

Very interesting history about ehrenbergii, Sanny. Thank you for posting that.

Sanny, thanks for your note. Thanks also to Vitorama, I had a nice chuckle about your 'poor me' comment. I keep at least several propagations of every different species, variety and hybrid in my collection in case I lose one or more during a bad winter. So that means 300 to 500 individual sans I have to maintain, thankfully most are in smaller pots but they're all mixed on my greenhouse benches.

I have a bigger collection of rare and uncommon aroids plus some crotons, succulents, ficus, hoyas, begonias.... plants number in the thousands. Whew! Poor me, good thing I'm retired!

Russ

Russ I knew you had a lot of plants but WOW 500 Sansevieria! Astounding!

Well Fred, 100+ separate kinds and multiples of those, sounds like a lot but really isn't. If I threw all the aroids out of my 12 X 24 foot shadehouse, my entire sans collection would easily fit in it. But half of the shadehouse is under a big oak tree and too shady for sans. I'd like to build another shadehouse out in the open just for sans, but time and especially energy is a problem.

How's your weather up there? Getting any warmer?

Russ

8 inches of snow today and now the temperature plunge! Down to 9 tonight and 8 tomorrow! I should not marvel as I too have some 200 plus plants of different types.

Same here and they threatening a major snow dumping nor'easter this week. Yuck!

I heard about the bad weather system going thru northern states. Was on the radio that Home Depots, Lowes, Ace Hardwares and others already deleted the winter stuff off the shelves and here comes the Siberian Express. No salt for driveways, snow shovels, etc. Maybe some kind of record for the month of March.

You've got more plants than I thought, Fred.

Russ

Russ,

It is a Nor'Easter which typically brings high winds and heavy snow. I am expecting 12 plus inches. All depends on the track of the storm. As for running out of supplies- poor planning and or tight budgets. Some March's are snowy some are rainy. Records, hum not sure.

Plants: most of mine are small. By this I mean 3, 4 and 6 inch pots.

Fred