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Thick broad rigid leaves that have made the plant rather top heavy. Writing on Facebook (26.01.2021) (and he has some nice pictures), Barry Yinger says: "On the road from Arusha to Moshi, Tanzania. Robert Sikawa and I spotted a colony of Sansevieria forskaoliana, a species more common further north in East Africa. It is unexpected in this region where there is more plentiful rainfall. This is the first time to see it blooming in the wild." Useful Tropical Plants say: "Sansevieria forskaoliana is a stemless evergreen perennial plant, producing clusterns of succulent, erect, rigid leaves up to 60cm or more long and 75mm wide from a rhizomatous rootstock. The leaves are often variegated. The flowering stem grows 75cm or more tall. The plant is gathered from the wild for the fibre obtained from its leaves. This is used locally." The African Plant Database describes the ecology: "Dry or evergreen bushland, grassland; escarpments; very widespread species; dry rocky places; Combretaceous woodland with tall grasses; riverine vegetation; also under trees and shrubs; 0-2200 m alt. Very variable in size, number and colour of leaves in different habitats; in drier areas the leaves may reach only 40 cm in height, in wetter places up to 1 m. Yemen, SW Saudi Arabia." |
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