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What other names does snake plant have? Get to know these common names

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Snake plant leaves are firm and upright, with grayish-white and dark green tiger-tail-like horizontal banded markings on the surface. Its posture is resolute and it is peculiar and interesting. Snake plant is tough and resilient, widely cultivated and used, and is a common indoor potted foliage plant.

Other names for snake plant

Snake plant (Sansevieria), thousand-year plant.

Snake plant's habits

Snake plant can reach a height of1m or so. The leaves grow in clusters and are upright, thick and leathery, with irregular dark green cloud-like horizontal stripes on both sides, hence the name "tiger tail". The leaves are basal, usually1~2blades, and some3~6blades in a cluster, upright, hard and leathery, flat, but when grown at home it often does not bloom, and it is mainly appreciated for its leaves.

Snake plant is highly adaptable, likes warmth and humidity, is drought-tolerant, and likes light but also tolerates shade. It is not demanding about soil, and sandy loam with good drainage is better.

The optimum growth temperature for snake plant is20~30°C, and the overwintering temperature is10°C. Snake plant can be propagated by division and cuttings.

Snake plant flower language

Resolute, firm.

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