I was snooping around the shade house looking for a hoya bloom and came upon this most unusual bloom. Its a mother-in-law tongue with the common name of Sanseveiria baseball bat.....and believe me its a very appropriate name. My plant that I started from a cutting years ago just sat there looking like a baseball bat until a few days ago when I noticed its most amazing and delicate bloom. I had to share it with you all.........I know hoya lovers can appreciate a good bloom.
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Lovely, Ric. Does it have any scent, delicate or strong? I have a S. cylindrica throwing up two bloom spikes now. One if them is about 2' tall and covered with little buds. Can't wait for them to open. I've noticed a sticky sap on the spikes as well. I wonder if that is normal, in some way related to polination. Have you noticed anything like that on your S. hallii's blooms?
Shirley
Wow Ric too awesome! I grow Sanseveirias but I've never seen any bloom like that one!!
Blessings,
Awanda
WOW how wonderful. I have grown Sanseveirias for 45 years. And I have never seen one bloom like that. Soooo preety! :)))))))
I have 2 baseball bat sans, but neither has bloomed. What kind of conditions are yours in Ric? Sun..greenhouse, fertilizer..etc??
Wow! That is a Beauty! Those little pods do look like baseball bats too! I've never heard of the Baseball Bat Sans. Can you post a pic of the entire plant?
Those blooms are really, really pretty and I too am curious if they are fragrant!
WOW!!!
WOW! Looks like fireworks. Hope mine does that some day. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for all the comments..........its really a neat care free plant. Light pleasant clean fragrance. Its been moved around but i think it likes morning sun. I used the beer fert. a couple of time last month, and did not water and it has not rained in a couple of weeks. So I think the stress of the cooler dryer weather triggered it.
I will post a pic of the plant...it is small so I was surprised to see it bloom.
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ricfl, I've not encountered that particular Sans but I will be keeping my eyes open for it from now on...it's a great looking plant...and you've obviously blessed it with good care.....Deb
That is a neat plant. I have a few generic Sans and they have never been anything special to me but I didn't know they had fragrant flowers!!! Now, I find that I may just have to look for that one!! Any other name besides Baseball Bat Sans??
Shirley- I have S cylindrica that bloomed! I walked into my house wondering what's that awful chemical smell. Idon't know reminded me of maybe some kind of glue? I finally found my cylindrica in bloom but getting close to it , it smelled OK kind of jasmine-y. The further I got away the worse it smelled.Strange!
I have sanseveria 'parva' which when it blooms smells heavenly, but unfortunately it doesn't last very long. It is also called the Kenya hyacinth because it smells like that. I even brought mine into the house when it was blooming and you could smell it throughout when you walked in.
Marcy
Hi All,
I know this thread is off topic, but it made me want to share my experiences. I have bloomed only two different kinds of my Sansevierias, despite nearly 40 years as a succulent plant nut! - Sansevieria parva and Sansevieria trifasciata. The Sanseveierias are usually considered to be one of the more difficult kinds of succulent to bloom. This is because they are related to the Agave's, so each rosette will only bloom once in it's lifetime. Don't worry about loosing your plant though, because in my experience blooming seems to trigger a lot of offset production, and the original one may well take 2 or 3 years to finish dying out in any case, by which time the new offsets will be very well established. S. parva though, is a blooming fool compared to most Sans, possibly because it is a very fast grower. My large clump of S. parva has now flowered every year for 4 years running and it is currently sporting 3 berries. Given the number of flower spikes it actually produced, that was lousy pollination though - next year I am going round with a brush! Not that I need any more S. parva plants (did I mention how fast it grows?) but it would be good practice for me to grow some from seed to see how they do, in case I am ever lucky enough to have flowers and seeds on some of my rarer ones.
I am envious that some of you have flowered S. cylindrica though, as this is a slow one and at least for me, it has displayed an annoying tendency to rot at the roots. I purchased a beautiful single cylindrica plant several years ago, which rotted to such an extent that it was reduced to separate leaves, which spent over 12 months sitting around in damp sand and have only just now started to produce new offsets at the base. I will close by showing you a close up of one of my S. parva berries - this photo was taken about 2 months ago, and the berries are now bright orange and nearly ripe enough to pick, as they are beginning to soften.
TTFN, Kaelkitty.
Edited to add, stupid thumbnail photo has cut the head off! To see the berry you will have to enlarge it, OK.
Edited again to fix spelling error
This message was edited Apr 12, 2009 6:58 PM
