I confess. I'm new at raising Sans and really hoping for the best. That masoniana is a new acquisition. I haven't had time to kill it yet. I'm beginning to worry that here in Southern California where I live about 4 miles from the ocean might be too cool for Sans in general, but especially the desert types - especially early spring when it tends to be cloudy every morning. This coming winter I have a sinking feeling I may have to bring some if not all of them indoors. The wife will hate that . The people I know in the area who collect and raise Sans all have them in places that tend to trap heat and moisture or are more inland than I.

There are recognized registries... off the top of my head, I can't tell you who. The folks who explained Splitters/Lumpers over at C&S should be able to tell you. The proof of a NEW species is at a cellular level. This discussion has been had on the Hoya forum. We seem to know some intrepid plant explorer/discoverer types over there. The retrieved tissue needs to be sent to someone with a 'library' to be compared against, to prove whether it is a species already known, or completely new. If completely new, the discoverer gets naming rights. Some of the orchidists could explain this also. Since orchids can be huge sluts, and are creating new intergenerics all the time, the same system works for them, also. Except I believe a cross needs to win an award before it gets it's 'grown up' name. All of this is second and third hand information that I am sharing so don't go around quoting me! I'm just giving you information of places where to start asking these questions. If you learned the old name of Crassula lycopodiodes, and prefer 'muscosa', use that. If you prefer to be more casual, use 'Watch chain'. I learned lycopodiodes, so can rattle that one off. If a plant of mine gets renamed, the new change gets input in my handwritten notes next to the other information that I have collected about that plant when someone I respect as knowledgeable tells me it has a new name. Other than that, I pretty much ignore the whole bruhaha.

Grigsby's is an excellent place to buy sansevieria, and they look great!. You can probably see where the soil line WAS when the plants were at Grigsbys, so try and plant them to the same depth. All these plants have underground rhizomes from which new leaves, or growths, appear. It looks like your Masoniana has 3 leaves now! Masoniana is normally a large leafed and large rhizome plant, so you might consider putting it in a larger pot at some time it you want to see it grow to its full potential. Your Bantel's Sensation is a trifasciata, and certainly a beautiful specimen. Grigsby's did you good! Not sure if "callux" means 'callus'. A callus is just a place where a rhizome has been severed and the cut has dried up (a good thing). Yes, it needs to be buried.

Many were in trade for something else. Oddly the mason Congos produce much variations even from a particular variegated form. I am trying to induce heavier variegation on my larger yard long leafed MC's to produce more variegated pups. It's a tedious process of taking a leaf cut, root them and then as pups form, make another cut higher above the leaf (leaving the lower rooted portions with pups to fend on their own). Then rooting the upper portion of the leaf, getting pups and then recutting and so on. You'd be surprised how many offset are produced from a single leaf. I also have methods in inducing multiplication process with the use of human birth control pills to newly developing pups, which requires the damaging of the terminals, treating with this solution and watch as it proliferates with many many pups, many of which will be variegated to albino. This is just some of the processes to induce variegation in sansevierias.