Sansevieria flowers

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Sansevieria flowers
« on: March 30, 2016, 08:34 »
I have 2 very large Sansevieria (Mother-in-laws tongue) plants and one of them has produced a little flower spike  8) 

I've never seen one flower before and it is a delicate little bloom for such a tough looking plant.  If you look carefully, there is a tiny drop of nectar under each flower  :)  Now I am wondering what they are trying to attract.  Its going to be something odd like bats isn't it  :lol:


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Re: Sansevieria flowers
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2016, 08:47 »
That's a lovely MIL's tongue.
Wikipedia tells me that it is pollinated by moths  :D
also that
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a flowered plant will no longer produce new leaves
but luckily it will produce new off shoots.

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Re: Sansevieria flowers
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2016, 11:58 »
That does look lovely. If it is usually pollinated by moths it might smell lovely too!
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Re: Sansevieria flowers
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2016, 13:24 »
I hadn't got as far as Mr Wikki, but that is useful info  :)  I haven't sniffed the flowers yet either, so I will do so when I get home from work  :)

The other whorls of leaves in the pot do look like they have got baby leaves growing in  the centres, so maybe it will just be that whorl that doesn't grow now  :unsure:  I shall have to keep an eye on it.

The 2 plants are huge and have distorted the plastic pots they are in so much that I can't get them out of the ceramic pot covers without smashing them. 

I was told they do better in confined root spaces, just leave alone and water and feed sparingly.  Mine are waxing fat on that treatment for sure  :lol:

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Re: Sansevieria flowers
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2016, 20:33 »
I think you may find that it hasn't fully opened yet. Each of those 'buds' should open up to a real flower.

Looking forward to more pictures if it does.

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Re: Sansevieria flowers
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2016, 18:18 »
Well it took a whole month, but the flowers are now starting to open fully.  I can't smell any scent by day, but I'll try tonight and see if they release scent then  :)


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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2016, 10:16 »
Worth the wait --- very pretty 😁


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