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'Yes. Sansevieria trifasciata.'

Sansevieria (now Dracaena) trifasciata is a species. Black Coral is a cultivar. To me your plant looks more like a form of Sansevieria trifasciata 'Hahniii, given the broad short leaf shape. But I am no expert.

Cute plant! I don't see any reason to attach a cultivar name if it didn't come with one on a label. It could just be the species, S. trifasciata, that has been crowded/inhibited by small pots, to keep it small, which would prevent it from fulfilling its potential. If given a big enough pot, and otherwise conditions within range, you'll know in a 2-3 years.

Sansevieria is now considered a dracaena?!?

Deanna

Yes.

I don’t think the leaf shape is a result of growing conditions. Crowding might shorten them but I doubt it would make them broader and more elliptical.

Deanna, only if you agree to call it that. You can call your plants whatever you want, and I will not participate in calling any Sans a Dracaena. That's an idiotic thing to do with valuable DNA info. "They" have been doing this to most of the plants recently. Philodendons and Scheffleras are supposedly something else now. I don't believe their identity changed because their DNA was investigated.

If one has doubt, experiment to see for yourself. My curiosity has been satisfied that way.

@Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL I will join you in the refusal to call sansevieria dracaenas. 🙄

Deanna

I don't believe your Sansevieria is a black coral. Go to a search engine and type in "sansevieria black coral." Then, look at "images" so you can see a bunch of photos. Every "black coral" I have seen, especially in stores, has the same coloration as yours but the leaves are long and slender, not short and squatty. The short-and-wide leaves do tend to belong to the "Hahnii" variety of Sans, as does the coloration of yours. Or maybe it is a "black Robusta." You can also explore on Etsy to see a variety of Sans.

I must disagree with whomever said that keeping it in a short, small pot would keep the plant from growing long leaves, but if you put it in a big pot the leaves will lengthen. Sansevieria don't grow like that. They grow from rhizomes in the soil.....long "stems" under the soil that cause a new "pup" (a new future leaf) to come up through the surface. Sometimes, if a Sans is comfortbly crowded and growing well, it will actually break the plastic pot with a rhizome and pup, or it may grow out of a drainage hole. I have bought a couple with healthy new leaves growing out from a bottom/side drainage hole.

Don't know where you are, but I can tell you that about a month ago, one of the larger commercial growers (maybe Altman Plants) brought A LOT of similar Sans to Home Depot stores where I live. They were all marked Sansevieria Superba. I don't know whether that's what they really are or not.

Sansevieria is a Sansevieria. Let the Taxonomists huddle in a circle and pull each others nomenclatures, but I'm with Tiffany on this one............Maryl

The jury is not in yet as to keeping Sansevieria in Dracaena. Still to many holes in the DNA study. Although there is a cross between the two species so that is making them the same. For me, count me in on never Dracaena. Speaking of hybrids, Aloe, Hawothia, Gasteria hybridize between each other and they are in separate species. And they split up Haworthia into several different species. So some they put together and others they split. Sounds like they don't know what their doing.

BTW, your plant is Black Robusta. Between Hahnii and regular trifasciata.

Tiffany,

Loved your post on PIG. Put in Ground. You grew some impressive sans in your yard.

Thank you very much, Stush!

Agree, the geneticists have no business messing with taxonomy. Totally different fields and they're confusing the snot out of everyone. The longer this goes on, the more people there are who realize the magnitude of the problems they are creating, for no reason. Nobody asked for any plants to be renamed except in cases where two species are realized to be the same thing, then the older name takes precedence.