Nicole, I don't believe it's a fischeri. I think it's one of the Sans ballyi family. Search up some images of ballyi -- it's a widely varying family so they don't all look alike, but to me, yours looks like it belongs in that family.

My suggestion would be to give it better soil than what is showing in the clay pot in your photo and to that soon. Sansevierias need soil that drains well and doesn't retain water too long. Most of my Sans are in a mix of 50/50 cactus/succulent soil (I use Black Gold soil, but Hoffmans -- available online and at a few local garden centers is very good too) and either washed perlite, which you can buy anywhere, or washed pumice. The point is -- to get the mix 50% soil and 50% "aerating" material that will allow the soil to drain.

I would remix your soil, repot your plant in it, and let it sit for about 4-6 days in a location that gets light but not bright sun. Let it recover. Then water it until water comes out the drainage hole, then move to a location of "bright light" but again, not direct sun....and let your baby resume a normal life. It looks to me like it will. Hope this helps you, and I wish you luck....I think you have an adorable Sans that can be restored!

@robinswfl Thank you so much! Some google rummaging showed pictures of Ballyi looking indeed much more like this little one. Don't worry I have about 50% perlite in there (we have a 100 litre bag of it in the shed bought for my sans fam!) I had a very thin layer of soil on the top just to stop the perlite floating away during watering! You can see a bit of it peeking through. Baby was outside in the patio where it got but not direct sun and I brought it in at night.. it is Winter here.

Thank you again, it may not be a Fischeri, but I am just as happy to welcome a Ballyi to the clan. 😊

I think the Perlite floating away business is a myth. I've used mixes w/ it & never had any problem, (tho' I prefer Pumice, which I use since I could get it).

Robin has shared excellent advice above. May I pls add a suggestion that you stop moving the plant indoors & out? You said it's Winter for you, but I can't tell where.

The idea here is to let your lovely new Sans adapt to its change of environment, from the Seller to your home.

It's been potted up & watered, so now it needs time to adapt. It won't help the plant if it has EVEN MORE CHANGES TO ADAPT TO, like maybe changing temps from indoors vs outdoors (I grow indoors only, but have excellent light to offer them). Just so you know.

@User Thank you! It only arrived yesterday, so has only had one day of Outside/Inside (I am in Australia, it was 9 deg C overnight). All my other Sans are inside with the exception of a free range Hahnii that was hidden for years in the back yard. I have places in the house that can meet Robin's advice about progressive light, so I will keep it inside from now on. Thank you again for your advice :)

@User Thank you - no worries at all - I am still very new to collecting Sans, so welcome any help and advice.

The free range Hahnii are exactly that, when we moved to our house from our little flat over six years ago, we had a motley collection of balcony succulents (jade plant, random sedums) and we put them in a corner of the garden and basically forgot about them..

A couple of months ago, looking behind what is now a monster of a Jade Plant, I found the forgotten pot of Hahnii, originally two rosettes, but now the more than a dozen pups had burst out of the pot and were making their way along the ground in the shelter of the Jade Plant, quite unnoticeable from the house.

Some got domesticated into pots, but the rest happily resumed their not so rapid ramblings :)

Two came into work with me as we returned to the office two weeks ago, and two more went to my colleague's desk when he saw mine and wanted some too. So they, with assistance, continue to spread! :)

What a nice story Nicole, re: your Free Range Hahniis, thanks for sharing it w/ us here. Great work, sounds like Happy Hahniis all around, certainly spreading the Sans love, which is always delightful to see.

Welcome to the Group!

Close in name only. I believe it is Sansevieria Francisii. I have the variegated kind that looks almost like yours.

Yours look dehydrated due to shipping. It should plump back up in a few weeks.

Hi Stush,

Sorry, but they look pretty different to me.

Compare the base of hers to the base of yours, hers looks like a single stem, yours looks shrubbier for lack of a better way to describe it.

My Francoisii looks shrubby based, more like yours (I think perhaps your tag is misspelled). I'm referring to the tallest one on the left there.

Karen,

That picture is when I just got it. It is a little taller now. There is no 'o' in francisii. Google it. Better pictures of plants looks more like hers. They like to shoot out a above ground rhizome starting a new plant.

Yours is well grown. How old is it?

@Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6 @User The plot thickens! I don't think mine is the Francisii from other pictures that I have seen.. it doesn't have that fox-tail brush look to it, but also on Stush's picture, if you look closely at the channel indentation on the leaves, they don't have that papery white and brown edging (is there a proper name for that?) that mine does. For reference, the first picture on this page looks very close to what I have and when it arrived in the mail, the 'stem' looked like it could have been a lot longer but had been broken off and rooted. Thank you very much for your help in id-ing this chap, even if it means I now have other ones on my wish list as I become aware of them! :D

Stush,

I speak French too & got the spelling confused. I'm sorry I assumed my spelling right, not yours, my mistake, I DID check a great site Rina provided & see you're correct abt that.

But the plants still look different to me, particularly at the base of the plant as I'd explained above.

I haven't a clue how old mine is. Came my way in Dec. 2019 & I scooped it up, recognizing its unusual form which I first saw at Norma's house around maybe 2005?

Here's a pic of its beautiful roots when I got it home & repotted it.

As I explained in my original post abt it, it was in a very peaty /coir-like mix. But these roots we were so beautiful that I used abt 25% of the original mix in my repotting.

Can't say for sure if I've seen any new growth on it; it's kind of hard to tell, given all the leaves it has.