A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The House Plant Forum My new snake plant....

Paid $4.00 for this at lowes the other day......Is it different or am I emagining?

dodge

The green is so much darker than I ever seen.

That's the kind I have 2 plants of - those exact leaves.

Thanks girls.

Pnp
did you just get it at lowes? $4.00

Dodge - I got mine at Ikea 4 years ago.

Snake plants, so called for their long, thin leaves, are also more comically referred to as mother-in-law's tongue. They are a good choice for a decorative houseplant because their upright shooting leaves make them strikingly different than other houseplants. With some basic plant care, they'll survive in your home. Snake plants are poisonous if consumed. Take care to keep them away from pets and children.

It's looking very nice.

I love snake plants, especially the sriped one, I used to have that was dark green speckled with wite, almost like someone splattered it with paint

There are many varieties of snakeplants. My favorite is Moonlight. Its a pale green/blue hue. You could have a whole house full of different varieties, there are so many! I have one like the one shown. How big of a pot is that? 4" or 6"? $4 is an excellent price. Congrats!

This was the first type of plant brought into our home. When my grandmother passed away in 2010, my mom took on all of her plants and quickly found herself in some deep water that she wasn't prepared for! Basically, they required more care than she wanted to give I would assume. We noticed the plants were all starting to suffer and since they were my grandmas.. I decided to take one and bring it into our home.

We had a situation with it during the later half of last year's summer. I think one of our neighbors (we live in an apartment complex) sprayed it with bug spray because it really started to smell like that and was starting to rot and fall over. I nearly lost the whole plant all the way down to the roots, but I managed to keep three leaves alive and planted another smaller one with them that we got from Lowes for like $4 as well. All of ours are the yellow bordered leaves!

sad story

And did you notice that some of the leaf borders are solid yellow, and some have green stripes? I thought that's what you meant when you said is this different. And yes, the green is really dark. Wonderful plant, the S. trifasciata - in the wild, it tends to have several different leaf colorations on the same plant, which as led to endless hybridization; also its habit of having different leaf sizes at different stages of growth has led to different sizes of plants. And did you know another common name is Bowstring Hemp, because in its native Africa, S. trifasciata was harvested for fiber that made excellent bowstrings?