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Beautiful silvery spears. There are a number of similar plants about with different names. Often listed as a form of S.trifasciata, it
is difficut to know where these variants really belong. Glasshouse Works say: "Also marketed from time to time as `Silver Moon' or `Moonglo.' Handsome large open vase of creamy silver-green wide overlapping leaves--certainly one of the most beatiful of all the truely reliable houseplants. European introduction of obscure derivation; always a visual treat. Has the same habit as 'Futura,' but there the similarity ends!" Writing in 'The Amateur Digest', Robert Streul says: " This is a relatively new cultivar which features broad, nearly solid, light silvery gray-green foliage with a tracery of dark green around the margin. Plants grown in deep shade have darker leaves. `Moonshine’ plants, also sold as `Moonglow’, usually have 3 or more upright leaves giving individual divisions a vase-like form as the leaves diverge slightly from the center of rosettes. `Moonshine’ is identical in growth habit and vigor to `Futura’ and `Robusta’. Wide leaves up to 4″ and 12″ tall. Easy to grow. Leaf cuttings do not produce offshoots true.Of all the Sans in my collection this plant is perhaps the most handsome thanks in part to the difference in color of the juvenile leaves and the adult leaves which almost gives the appearance of two different plants in one pot." | |
| 7th November 2008 | ||
