My houseplant - Biological anomaly, mutation, or evolution?

[gsdx]

I found another sport in the other pot. It's a smaller leaf and it was hidden behind one of the other leaves. This one is different, though. The first one posted above is growing separately from the other 2 plants that are in the pot. The one I just discovered is growing directly out of the plant, and there looks like a lot of new sprouts at the base as well.

The first one I posted is hollow at the bottom, making a tube of sorts. I can stick my finger into it and there is a 'spike' there. I'm guessing its new a new sprout growing there.

Anyway, here is the new leaf. (I moved it out to the side so you can see it.) Below that photo is an overall view:

 

[72-Jay]

The NDP (New Democratic Party) are asking Justin Trudeau to decriminalize pot first, but Justin fears that criminal activities would become rampant if they suddenly became 'legal'. Better to control it.

I think Justin's got the right approach there. No use in giving criminals any extra opportunities.

Different name, same plant. (Thank goodness for Google!)

Yep gotta love Google for things like that!

Below that photo is an overall view:

Nice little collection of plants


What started as a separate project for me today (one that required moving 6 houseplants out of the way) ended in its own project of moving a good portion of them in big part just to collect the leaves..that & a little bit of trimming filled a whole paper grocery bag

 

[gsdx]

Yep gotta love Google for things like that!

Actually, a little more research revealed that they share the same name, but they are variations. The snake plant variation is a little more 'serpentine'.

Do you compost or are you able to where you live?

 

[72-Jay]

Actually, a little more research revealed that they share the same name, but they are variations. The snake plant variation is a little more 'serpentine'.

Interesting. I didn't know that. I have no idea which one I have

Do you compost or are you able to where you live?

I don't, but yep it is allowed in my area.
Sometimes when I get a bunch of houseplant leaves like that I'll keep 'em & put them in the firepit to help get it started, then those & the wood ash gets dumped in the garden a couple days later.
These ones will just go in the trash though (its been too dry here and there are burning restrictions in place)

 

[NotHardUp1]

The anecdote I heard from a knowledgeable native plant botanist said that the term "mother-in-law's tongue" was given the plant by American natives. Supposedly, it came from observing that the plant, when cut and the cut edge applied to the tongue, caused it to swell to render the person unable to speak intelligibly. Humor!

 

[Vitamin]

If it came through the window, it would have to pass through the screen, rise vertically a half metre or so, make a right-angle turn to the left, and drop into the pot. Athletic little spore.

Or it was guided by a force from above...

 

[gsdx]

I don't, but yep it is allowed in my area.

Composting is encouraged here, as is rain water collection and use for watering gardens. We also have weekly green waste recycling and pick-up here in Peterborough. It's turned into compost which is bagged and sold to the public for about half the cost of store-bought compost.

Or it was guided by a force from above...

According to Wiki, Giorgio is a Swiss-born American-Greek.

That explains the hair.

Well, that and the fact that he uses alien semen as a hair gel.

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

2 different species of Sansevieria in the same pot. The variegated plant produced green leaves so it appeared to be one plant as it looks similar to the molted other green plant. Some thing related to the light changed, it received more light where the new leaves are coming up. This allowed the true colors variegated form to grow instead of the darker green leaves lacking proper color due to light or a combination of other cultivation issues (temp, water, but mainly light).

 

[gsdx]

^ I've had the plants for years. They've been where they are all that time. Nothing has changed except that they've grown considerably. Hell, I haven't even rotated the pots.

 

[dpnice]

It is just like your Spider Plants when the off shoots are all white rather than green and white.

 

[72-Jay]

Composting is encouraged here, as is rain water collection and use for watering gardens. We also have weekly green waste recycling and pick-up here in Peterborough. It's turned into compost which is bagged and sold to the public for about half the cost of store-bought compost.

Composting is somewhat encouraged here too. I've thought about doing it (and have a little back area in the yard where I tend to dump any damaged/bad fruits & veggies from the garden). I also tend to use grass clippings to cover bare dirt (basically as a layer of mulch)
As far as I know no cities/towns/counties here do green waste recycling (with the exception of Christmas Trees...people can bring a tree to be recycled, and then at some point later after they've been turned into mulch, go back and get some of that )

This spring they finally legalized rain water collection for watering gardens here. (something that had been talked about for years, but was always opposed by water-rights holders)

 

[SaskGuy]

Maybe the plant is some type of hybrid, and it's starting to revert back into one of the parent varieties. That's starting to happen with my "pearls & jade" pothos plant; one of the vines is beginning to grow large plain darker green leaves, when it's supposed to have smaller variegated leaves with a lighter green tint.

 

[EJMichaels]

Maybe the plant is some type of hybrid, and it's starting to revert back into one of the parent varieties. That's starting to happen with my "pearls & jade" pothos plant; one of the vines is beginning to grow large plain darker green leaves, when it's supposed to have smaller variegated leaves with a lighter green tint.

My variegated pothos (Silver Queen) sometimes grows solid green leaves and I was told it was due to low light. Some plants can actually revert to a parent variety when you try to propagate by cuttings (and probably in other circumstances). I recently read that Sansevieria trifasciata "Moonshine" reverts to Robusta (for example).

One web site explained that since the green leaves are needed for producing energy, a normally variegated plant needing more energy will produce more solid green. Some other reasons.

 

[EJMichaels]

Gratuitous sanseviera pic (I can't make it larger now)

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"Whitney"
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[gsdx]

Some plants can actually revert to a parent variety when you try to propagate by cuttings

I read that as well as I was researching the care of the plants. Mine are more-or-less solid green with pale green edging all around. To propagate, the webpage showed that you simply take a leaf, slice it horizontally into squares, and stick each square into the soil (sliced edge down, of course). The page warned, however, that the new plant would lose its pale green edging and become solid green.

 

[Willie Boy]

It is an alien plant and that stranger at your window was an alien scout attempting to locate and retrieve it.

 

[gsdx]

^ Shhhh.....

I think I can hear someone calling me from my bedroom. I keep hearing, "Seymoure.... Seymoure...."

 

[Willie Boy]

Oh, that's just me. I am a ventriloquist after all. Remember, I told you I would call you Seymore from now on.