The Encyclopedia of House Plants

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Plant identification guide.

Leaves very tough, long, thick, entire, sitting on rhizomes, sticking out perpendicularly to soil surface, with dark and light stripes across the blade. - Sansevieria trifasciata Leaves soft, narrowly lanceolate, ⅔-¾″ wide, in bundles, with whitish and yellowish stripes going along the blade at margins. Adult plants form slender, arched, drooping down stems with underdeveloped leaves, in axils of which young plantlets develop. - Chlorophytum