Splashed boiling water on my mom's plant

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Trevor15 Everett, MA Aug 11, 2015

Hi everybody,

I am new here, so please forgive me if this is in the wrong thread. Unfortunately I do not have the name of the plant, but I included a picture.

Anyway, I splashed a very small amount of boiling water on one of the leaves by accident. I want to know if this is generally a big deal or not, and if there's anything I can do to stop it from causing damage.

This plant has a lot of sentimental value to my mother, so it's very important to me that it doesn't get damaged.

Thanks very much in advance,
Trevor

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Diana_K Contra Costa County, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 11, 2015

I think this is a Sanseveria.

Once the boiling water has hit the leaf there is not much you can do. Watch to see if the leaf develops any problems, and remove that leaf if needed.

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tapla Bay City, MI(Zone 6a) Aug 12, 2015

I agree, but there is no physiological reason to remove a leaf that is still a contributor of food/energy to the organism because it has an injury. If the leaf becomes a net USER of energy (rather than a net contributor), chemical messengers will alert 'plant central' and the plant will shed the freeloading leaf.

Al

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