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'Laurentii' is the classic Sansevieria for use as a houseplant. As it matures it becomes very tall, and is well worth growing in a clay pot or something equally heavy,
to stop it toppling over. Graf says: "leading commercial variety because of its elegant, stiff, swordshaped leaves having yellow bands on either side of the deep green, light banded center, its good keeping qualities, and nicely turned rosettes, soon clustering, from the fleshy rhizomes." Juan Chahinian says: "Originally described by N. E. Brown, it comes from the Belgian Congo as a cultivated plant introduced by Emile Laurent. This plant differs from trifasciata only in the yellow banding of up to 1 cm. (3/8 in.) in width. In the growing stage, this plant is overlayed by a whitish cast, continuation of the crossbanding. This overlay disappears almost completely with age. The width of the edge striping is not the same on the front of the leaf as on the back. Many times a yellow stripe will parallel the edge one within the center of the leaf, on its front or back and even going through it. This is of no particular significance and should be regarded as the regular appearance of the plant. This is actually a 'slip' of the albino tissue which completely wraps the growing tip (periclinal chimera) but ends up relegated to the borders as the leaf grows. It is unusual, but one can occasionally observe this plant revert back to trifasciata." |
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| 14th September 2007 | ||
