spiral sanservia?

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forgetcolor Urbana, IL Jun 22, 2009

I've got a couple plants that look like variegated Sanseviera in their leaves. But instead of coming up relatively straight, and from multiple points, all leaves come from the center of the plant. They kind of 'spiral' out from the center, and as the leaves get longer they twist too. The ones I have seem to have very small root systems and they are extremely slow growers.

Anyone know what variety this is?

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Jun 22, 2009

Can you post a picture?

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Jun 23, 2009

I'm sure your plant could be properly identified if you could post a photo.

I wonder if your plant could be Juncus, commonly called Corkscrew Rush?: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55269/

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/juncus.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week333.shtml&usg=__pjUoGmAFfXcX62ToaeqnlpTBALc=&h=483&w=644&sz=86&hl=en&start=11&um=1&tbnid=jnitJLBeoUozSM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djuncus%2Beffusus%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

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forgetcolor Urbana, IL Jun 24, 2009

Here's one specimen. All growth comes from the center.

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forgetcolor Urbana, IL Jun 24, 2009

Here's another specimen. It's the variegated one, not the non-variegated one (there are two plants in the pot). Again, all growth comes from the center. The next shot will show how drastically the longer leaves twist.

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forgetcolor Urbana, IL Jun 24, 2009

And here you can see a longer leaf of that same plant.

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Jun 24, 2009

Those are definitely Sansevieira, commonly called Snake Plant. There are more than 50 listed in the Plant Files database: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=sanseiveria&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&searcher[genus]=Sansevieria Maybe you can scroll through some of the photo's and find a match for your plant.

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forgetcolor Urbana, IL Jun 24, 2009

Ok, thanks for that. I had never seen one where all growth only came from the very center and there are no pups. Plus they usually grow upwards but these seem to grow outward. I thought it might be a different variety.

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