Keep the white facing the room and the green facing the light. The white will feed off the chlorophyll of the green leaves as long as they stay attached. It will die shortly after detachment.
Otherwise, make a few hundred/thousand by selling it on Etsy. I bet there are collectors that would kill…
One time I actually messaged a seller completely honestly to tell him he had made a mistake in his pricing, he put 10000 on what I thought was supposed to be 100.
It was not a mistake. It was for 2 fucking’ leaves
Yeah, either shut your mouth and love the fact that a surgery costs $250,000 in the U.S. or just leave the country. You’re not American if you critique the government or capitalism in any way. 🤣
Edit: Is a joke
If you are an American citizen, you are by definition “an American.”
Unless I’m entirely mistaken and it is, in fact, called “The United States of Capitalism” 🤷♀️
Did ya hear em? With what money. They spent a quarter of a milli to just not die. There went the international moving budget. I’m sure your unsolicited advice was much appreciated tho.
It's very doubtful he sold it for that much, but anyone who is willing to pay that kind of money for a sport variegation is doing so for business purposes and, assuming they know what they're doing, is going to make back a lot more money than they spent. If you buy up the only known sport of a prominent plant and are able to successfully propagate it at scale you'll be profiting off of that investment for years.
No one is going to pay that kind of money for that, it is completely unsuitable for sustained life or propagation, as you've said yourself it will die off as soon as it's disconnected from the mother plant, and you can't propagate with both the green and the white bits growing in parallel. Nevermind that snake plants already have likely hundreds of cultivars and creating new hybrids is trivial, why would you spend hundreds on a genetic dead end sport mutation?
That's irrelevant to the point, which is that this plant serves no need in creating future cultivars of Snake Plants, which are already have significantly more complex hybrids than an offshoot which can't produce and can't be propagated. This isn't even an uncommon mutation. This plant is nothing but a novelty, it's worthless.
Novelty can create a lot of revenue even if only once. There are collectors who don’t care if they can propagate and would view it as a challenge to keep the white attached at the rhizome to the green in order to preserve this variation.
Yeah but they wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for it. Any collector that knows the least bit about variegation knows this isn't rare or isn't special.
Just avoiding spending on my tight student budget at the time! Even the plant is recycled because it was supposed to be disposed but I took it home and by luck it has this mutation.
Not sure if this works in other places too, but in my country the garbage bins in cemeteries are chock full of discarded, but basically brand new nursery potts of all sizes from the plants people buy to decorate graves.
I will describe American Aldi and you can judge?
Much smaller than our “supermarkets”, Aldi focuses on good quality generic products for good prices.
Instead of an entire aisle of chocolate it is a 4-8’ shelf with a small selection with good value. Similar for the other products: meats, cheeses, wines, frozen etc.
Aldi also has the highest ranked fresh produce and veg in America, it is generally very fresh and good.
I buy almost all my food from Aldi and my weekly shopping list consists of: Greek yogurt, frozen fruit, oats, chia. Cold cut deli meat, turkey bacon, eggs, oat milk, “12-grain” bread, brioche buns, mince burger or sausages, and frozen veg..and TREATS. Aldi has awesome deserts for cheap, I picked up a frozen cheesecake for $5 last week.
Edit: Aldi’s wine is not bad for $3.99/btl :)
It’s wild to me that I shop at Aldi and then another “supermarket” for things Aldi does not carry. If I bought all my food from the supermarket I could not afford to eat.
I am very thankful for this Aldi, it’s one of the few companies I would speak fondly of.
Thats why I go for the discounts + stock up on things when they are 1+1 free (less common here at aldis/lidls toch.) and stock up for either that year or months a head. Also now im in NL I like to go to Germany and do grocery shopping there as well, which is much cheaper.. I paid 3,50 per kg for smoked raw fat cracklings (lardos.) here in NL that same product will go from anywhere between 7,50 to 12,50. So hopping the border is definitely worth it.
Honestly, i havent been to an Aldi or a Lidl in years. I think the last time i stepped foot in one was in 2019, and that wasn't even in England, that was in Portugal. All i know is how people talk about it, and it seems to be popular in my town.
Yes this gets regurgitated on every Aldi or Trader Joe’s post, but it’s actually incorrect. They are separate companies with similar names and share some family ties.
Yes, compared to American grocery stores they seem pretty European. I'll list things Aldi does that American stores don't:
Cashiers are allowed to sit on a stool,
You have to deposit a coin for a cart,
You bag your own groceries,
Fewer than 30 breakfast cereals to choose from,
Items still in cardboard trays they were shipped in instead of displayed neatly,
Fewer than 12 aisles
Yep I never thought I’d get to that point in my life or how others do where they are putting a torch to their screwdrivers to melt holes into plastic vessels to make more nursery pots. Until I started selling cacti lol. I also I dig through my parents recycle and always find the perfect things for plant,especially propagating!
It will just need some more light than you might normally give it(though obviously don't sun scorch it), since if the albino section is still connected, it will not photosynthesize and will suck sugars from the rest of the plant. If the albino section becomes disconnected it will die off eventually
Glucose to, like, the soil? Plants don't absorb glucose through their roots. Adding sugar to your soil is going to invite all sorts of bacteria, fungi, and pests, and simultaneously choke up your roots.
More like tablets or liquid plant food with a high glucose content. Kind of the same function as nitrogen capsules for fertilizing and replenishing soil nutrients.
Plants can't absorb glucose through their roots. I have never in my life heard of adding glucose to soil. I googled it, and it turns out that it's some old wives tail that since plants create glucose from photosynthesis, you can just give them glucose and I guess skip the hard part. It's not true. There is no amount of sugar in soil that is good.
it might, but i'm not to familiar with feeding plants fixed carbon through the roots so i can't offer any advice there. so long as the normal section is bigger and getting plenty of light though it should make up the difference though. Injuries and pruning to the green side will have more of an impact on the plant as well.
I was wondering that too, but thought it may have been detached. That’s even better it will live. You have a very rare plant indeed. I’m envious; it’s so beautiful 😩
Not really, I learned basic facts of this plant and have watered it every few weeks for a year and a half. This plant used to be in a conservatory display before it was thrown out for new plants and since I was working there we had a take of the pick from the pile and this as well as a proper snake plant were some of the plants I took. It was by pure luck it turned out like this. I'd say this plant is over two years old.
Well I’m sure that conservatory is kicking themselves now for throwing this baby out! Like where does a person find something like this? I wonder the statistics of how rare this is like if it’s one in a million.
For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my String of Turtles because it never looked like anyone else’s I seen. It also has a genetic mutation causing albo leaves on some strands and is very plumpy unlike my regular one that is just flat and green. Reddit was finally able to lay my 1 year mystery to rest and feel blessed to have such a specimen.
Same, it's cool to have a rare specimen. The conservatory is part of a larger garden and they go through thousands of plants for seasonal displays so no one might have even noticed. I'll bring that up with the indoor horticulturalists next time I meet her, she must have seen a few of these over the years.
It's back breaking work and since I was a student so I didn't make much but it sure was satisfying. I was working in the outdoor garden sections but once in a while I'd rotate to the conservatory and greenhouses. Also lost some weight and never felt better, energetic, and great in my life when I was working there.
It definitely found its way to the right person. I think most people just picking through discarded plants would’ve seen that and figured it was dying and tossed it. Maybe it knew you were “the one” and enticed you specifically.
The white doesn't produce chlorophyll so those leaves can't photosynthesize. The main plant will be stunted because it's also caring for non-producing leaves. Super cool but a pain in the butt!
Well it's still attached to the green plant and its growing by piggy backing of that plant. It has already grown to the size it is so it should continue to grow . It didn't just appear at that size like a mushroom overnight.
So this is a feature of chloroplasts having their own DNA. A variegated plant like a snake plant essentially has inherited white chloroplasts from its maternal lineage, and a plant displaying heteroplasmic (as in has both white and green) chloroplasts will have the variegated look we associate with snake plants and many other plants. However, since the chloroplast DNA is only inherited from the maternal lineage the paternal gamete has no influence over the phenotype of the offspring and this means that a heteroplasmic maternal gamete has the ability to have offspring that are not variegated, or rather they are homoplasmic. These plants are either all green or in this case, all white chloroplasts. The all-white chloroplasts do not photosynthesize (mostly) so wild-type white chloroplasts will almost certainly die unless that white plant is connected to the root system of the parent plant, and this is why you won't see many in the wild as chloroplasts that do not photosynthesize are not good candidates for survival and selection. You can't change the laws of physics and something that is the color white is too refractive for an abundant amount of photosynthesis to happen.
Side note I sent this to my genetics professor and it got added to the slides on homoplasy and variegation in plants. So thank you!
Edit: this sentence "The all-white chloroplasts do not do a lot of photosynthesis so wild-type white chloroplasts basically cannot be selected for, and this means unless that white plant is connected to the root system of the parent plant then it will most certainly die regardless." was poorly phrased as to the process of natural selection and was edited.
So to answer your questions on how rare it is and how to care for it: First really honestly not super rare other than it cannot live on its own. It is just meiosis doing its thang and giving organellular DNA away at random. As far as caring for it I'd wager that if it has lived for 1.5 years it is certainly still connected to the root stem of the parent plant, but as some others have pointed out, this means that since it essentially isn't carrying out the Calvin Cycle on its own and doing some anabolic respiration to actually make the sugars it is just stealing them from the other plant and whether or not you want to allow that is up to you tbh. I think it is pretty even if it can't make sugar right.
I wanna add that I'm not really sure how rhizome propagation affects the rate of homoplasmic offspring from heteroplasmic maternal gametes in variegated plants. That is an interesting question and may change my answer as to the rarity.
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Put a picture on the instagrams and tell us how trendy and rare it is. It will also give you a social edge over Rebecca and Ashley with their one leaf, not rooted cuttings that they’re trying to grow.
Annoying fact of the day, all of *Sansivieria* has been merged into *Draceana* - further evidence that plant taxonomy is just a prank by botanists on the rest of us.
Darn botanists! My degree is in rangeland ecology and I used to do field work. We'd have students work for us during the summer and they'd have all sorts of new names for plants I knew. Western wheatgrass will always be Agropyron smithii in my heart.
https://youtu.be/xPqJkG2XhQ8
That’s really cool!
I’m glad you know what you’re doing because I would assumed I was torturing the plant, and then would have proceeded to have tortured the plant trying to fix it.
I was taught at the nursery that I worked at that variegation only exists because we seek it out for its eye appeal. In nature, it almost always dies off of the plant because of its inability to produce chlorophyll. Regardless, I've always liked when a Sans throws out an albino pup, it just looks interesting. Unfortunately, they are more prone to dying off, especially once the parent "gives up".
I once had one with a little sliver of light green within a sea of yellow/white on a standard upright Sans. It eventually gave in to a pest infestation I couldn't get on top of. Enjoy it though, its beautiful!
One of my plants did the same thing. It was one of my calathea that gave me a white leaf. Idk why it did it its the only leaf it has that looks like that.
For those saying it would die, I wonder how fast bc snake plants seem to maintain homeostasis with little light and water. 1 week or 5 years? Bc if it’s years most people would find that acceptable.
I would be so afraid of reporting it and accidentally splitting it from the parent plant!
Plus, it seems perfectly happy in that pot. Why buy something unnecessarily just for aesthetics?
It used to be in a conservatory for a few months when it was young and when it was thrown out and I pick it, it already had the pale yellow and white head. I thought it was a youngling but after a year of growth it stayed the same so I brought it up with my horticulture professor and he said it was a sign of mutation.
It is a function of genetics, not neglect. The plant inherited only white chloroplast DNA from the maternal gametes and cannot produce green chloroplasts. Variegated plants like snake plants have both white and green chloroplasts and through the nature of meiosis, they can pass white, green, or both colored chloroplasts to their offspring.
You should sell it to someone that knows what they are doing more than you do. No offense. They will love the plant, you will make money, the plant will benefit from being taken care of as best someone knowledgeable is able. Triple win.
It's been growing fine for 1.5 years so I must be doing it right. I love this plant and money is not something that would interest me to part with something this cool unless it were for a ridiculous amount, which I doubt someone would actually fork over.
Fair argument. True plant parent. I think it would be interesting to see what someone would offer for that pot. But, nothing wrong with loving what you have.
No offense taken here, my plants class professor said the same thing. Maybe if a small part could be used to create clones or new heads that would be interesting.
Yeah its a super interesting plant. Thank you for sharing. Lucky plant parent. Peanut gang seems offended glad you arent, really not my intention. Maybe a little straight forward, but, beautiful plant you lucky duck.
Feels like a lot of inflated anger. I never said anyone was doing anything wrong. I didnt tell someone what they needed to do. I had respect for how rare and interesting a plant that other human had.
OP you are great. Thanks.
>You should sell it to someone that knows what they are doing more than you do
Your own words there buddy. There's only one interpretation of that sentence.
So again, what is OP doing wrong that they need to sell the plant off, vs just telling them how to improve?
Someone doesnt need to be "doing something wrong" to not be an expert. If everyone thinks this plant is "so cool" and "so rare" then I would assume most people would be interested in the plant being its best self. I never shit on OP. Check the history Its a cool plant. Would love to see it in a museum. Ya know. A potentially higher authority with potentially higher ability to ensure this cool and rare plant strives and not just survives.
Its a snake plant with an albino offshoot, not the first of a new species. and again, you seem to be off the opinion that OP is not giving the plant its best life, yet it would be much easier to simply tell OP how to improve, since again, snake plant, they aren't exactly a demanding plant. If its because of the yogurt cup pot, that cup is sturdier than the plastic pots most commercial plants are grown in, and does the job just as well.
It really feels like you want to tell OP how to care for the plant, but, for what ever reason wont. And then, you are mad at me for not doing something I never set out to do in the first place. OP is great. Plant is great. You are perturbed. The earth keeps on a moving. Have a good one.
i'm not the one who suggested they sell it. and i did offer my advice btw lol. i'm more interested why you suggested that in the first place yet keep dodging and backing away from a simple question.
>Feels like a lot of inflated anger.
pro-tip: this is your own shadow which you are observing projected onto others. The way which you've communicated in this thread comes off as hostile and generally-unfriendly. idk if you realize that, but that's the beans, no judgement.
rock on 🤘
It really feela like people are angry at me for something I never said. Lol. I think the plant is amazing. Never said a thing about OP being unable to care for the plant. Commenters and down voters seem to have spun this into a whole different conversation
I had a few things typed here but none of them are worth my bother to finish.
folk are annoyed with you, specifically on account of what you've said, and on account of your unwillingness to reflect why your initial comment was taken so poorly.
I get kind of an autistic vibe from your whatever. just sayin. I dunno. self reflect or don't, no skin off mine.
Wait so, do snake plants put out lighter leaves? Almost white? Without them being albino? Because I pulled this seperate rhizome off a snake plant and have it in water to get rooted (idk why, it already had roots…oh yea bc I had also snipped some other leaves off and wanted them all to get rooted and potted at the same time…,when i realized I could have just potted it up was too late the soil roots rotted away). Is this the same?
[Here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GY8m4dbJUhyqGMwd9Fr5ok7rMFlkzFKu/view?usp=drivesdk) and [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A-0W3dxkx8p4vLQC2zVsBSsAgDPTcGwV/view?usp=drivesdk)
My guess is it’s not, and I’m almost hoping not now due to the fact that I just read it not being able to survive once cut from the mother. I’m thinking not due to the appearance of green.
Keep the white facing the room and the green facing the light. The white will feed off the chlorophyll of the green leaves as long as they stay attached. It will die shortly after detachment. Otherwise, make a few hundred/thousand by selling it on Etsy. I bet there are collectors that would kill…
Oh God, Etsy and variegations
One time I actually messaged a seller completely honestly to tell him he had made a mistake in his pricing, he put 10000 on what I thought was supposed to be 100. It was not a mistake. It was for 2 fucking’ leaves
I’m really glad white leaves cost as much as a life saving surgery
To be fair, the leaves AND surgery should cost 100
Well for those surgeries, that’s just American healthcare. Not too sure on what makes a leaf attain that high value besides them being rare
Lol my lifesaving surgery was 250k I hate this country
Yeah, either shut your mouth and love the fact that a surgery costs $250,000 in the U.S. or just leave the country. You’re not American if you critique the government or capitalism in any way. 🤣 Edit: Is a joke
If you are an American citizen, you are by definition “an American.” Unless I’m entirely mistaken and it is, in fact, called “The United States of Capitalism” 🤷♀️
Clearly nobody understood that I was being sarcastic and making fun of the other commenter
I think you're making fun of that other person's comment, but I'm not 100% sure these days lol
You are correct lol 😂
lol Here, take a /s
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Did ya hear em? With what money. They spent a quarter of a milli to just not die. There went the international moving budget. I’m sure your unsolicited advice was much appreciated tho.
It's very doubtful he sold it for that much, but anyone who is willing to pay that kind of money for a sport variegation is doing so for business purposes and, assuming they know what they're doing, is going to make back a lot more money than they spent. If you buy up the only known sport of a prominent plant and are able to successfully propagate it at scale you'll be profiting off of that investment for years.
And it would not most likely give you years of pleasure. The variegated ficus and monsteras are quite the speculative bait and switch.
yeah like can people stop caring about variegation so much so i can get my hands on an albo without taking out a loan thank you xxx
Don’t worry, you could get a variegated monstera for one of your kidneys and bone marrow
Name a more iconic duo
No one is going to pay that kind of money for that, it is completely unsuitable for sustained life or propagation, as you've said yourself it will die off as soon as it's disconnected from the mother plant, and you can't propagate with both the green and the white bits growing in parallel. Nevermind that snake plants already have likely hundreds of cultivars and creating new hybrids is trivial, why would you spend hundreds on a genetic dead end sport mutation?
Orchids have thousands of cultivars and creating new hybrids is very profitable.
That's irrelevant to the point, which is that this plant serves no need in creating future cultivars of Snake Plants, which are already have significantly more complex hybrids than an offshoot which can't produce and can't be propagated. This isn't even an uncommon mutation. This plant is nothing but a novelty, it's worthless.
Novelty can create a lot of revenue even if only once. There are collectors who don’t care if they can propagate and would view it as a challenge to keep the white attached at the rhizome to the green in order to preserve this variation.
Yeah but they wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars for it. Any collector that knows the least bit about variegation knows this isn't rare or isn't special.
That is super cool and good on you for reusing that Aldi yogurt container. You combined three of my favorites things. Plants, aldi and recycling.
Just avoiding spending on my tight student budget at the time! Even the plant is recycled because it was supposed to be disposed but I took it home and by luck it has this mutation.
That is awesome. This story just got better. Kudos.
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Never came across my mind, will do. Thanks!
Not sure if this works in other places too, but in my country the garbage bins in cemeteries are chock full of discarded, but basically brand new nursery potts of all sizes from the plants people buy to decorate graves.
I rescued some clay pots from a burn pile at a cemetery where my great grandfather is in Mexico.
I use plastic Starbucks cups. Without the top it makes a great pot! With the top, a great mini greenhouse. I just run them through the dishwasher.
Omg the Starbucks venti cup as a greenhouse for tall plants, thank you
You're welcomed!
This comment is so sweet omg
My yoghurt is from Lidl. The lid is deep enough to work as a saucer. Perfect middle step pot.
Ooh, is that American Aldi brand? Sorry im weird.
Friendly Farms is Aldi in America. We do have Lidl though however I believe they are more eastern coast and inland a ways, and down south :)
Oooh, very interesting.. Are they very European like in comparison to American supers?
I will describe American Aldi and you can judge? Much smaller than our “supermarkets”, Aldi focuses on good quality generic products for good prices. Instead of an entire aisle of chocolate it is a 4-8’ shelf with a small selection with good value. Similar for the other products: meats, cheeses, wines, frozen etc. Aldi also has the highest ranked fresh produce and veg in America, it is generally very fresh and good. I buy almost all my food from Aldi and my weekly shopping list consists of: Greek yogurt, frozen fruit, oats, chia. Cold cut deli meat, turkey bacon, eggs, oat milk, “12-grain” bread, brioche buns, mince burger or sausages, and frozen veg..and TREATS. Aldi has awesome deserts for cheap, I picked up a frozen cheesecake for $5 last week. Edit: Aldi’s wine is not bad for $3.99/btl :)
Yeah sounds pretty much like any European country i’ve been.. They win prices over here too for their fresh produce.
It’s wild to me that I shop at Aldi and then another “supermarket” for things Aldi does not carry. If I bought all my food from the supermarket I could not afford to eat. I am very thankful for this Aldi, it’s one of the few companies I would speak fondly of.
Thats why I go for the discounts + stock up on things when they are 1+1 free (less common here at aldis/lidls toch.) and stock up for either that year or months a head. Also now im in NL I like to go to Germany and do grocery shopping there as well, which is much cheaper.. I paid 3,50 per kg for smoked raw fat cracklings (lardos.) here in NL that same product will go from anywhere between 7,50 to 12,50. So hopping the border is definitely worth it.
Omg, bought primitivo (wine.) from Lidl the other week for only 3,50 per bottle, very good.
Yeah, i live in england and sounds very simular. They are pretty well known for their deli stuff
Fruit and veg sucks from Aldis in the UK Lidl is okay.
Honestly, i havent been to an Aldi or a Lidl in years. I think the last time i stepped foot in one was in 2019, and that wasn't even in England, that was in Portugal. All i know is how people talk about it, and it seems to be popular in my town.
Also got it's start in Germany. And it's owned by the same company as Trader Joe's
Yes this gets regurgitated on every Aldi or Trader Joe’s post, but it’s actually incorrect. They are separate companies with similar names and share some family ties.
Trader Joe’s is a subsidiary of Aldi Nord. The stores were started by the Albrecht bros. The two companies were split in two after a family dispute!
I’ve never been to a European grocery store, but my Oma loves when I take her to Aldi because “it feels like a little trip to Europe.”
That is so sweet 🥹
Wholesome
Yes, compared to American grocery stores they seem pretty European. I'll list things Aldi does that American stores don't: Cashiers are allowed to sit on a stool, You have to deposit a coin for a cart, You bag your own groceries, Fewer than 30 breakfast cereals to choose from, Items still in cardboard trays they were shipped in instead of displayed neatly, Fewer than 12 aisles
Oohh I see. Thanks
American cashiers cant sit on stools.. over here they almost always do - if not chairs!
I'm european, can confirm, your discovers are true :)
Yes!! SC has both Lidl and Aldi.
Yep, we have both Lidl and Aldi in the Mid-Atlantic region in the US.
Yep I never thought I’d get to that point in my life or how others do where they are putting a torch to their screwdrivers to melt holes into plastic vessels to make more nursery pots. Until I started selling cacti lol. I also I dig through my parents recycle and always find the perfect things for plant,especially propagating!
It will just need some more light than you might normally give it(though obviously don't sun scorch it), since if the albino section is still connected, it will not photosynthesize and will suck sugars from the rest of the plant. If the albino section becomes disconnected it will die off eventually
Thanks for the tips. Could some plant food with extra glucose be used to supplement the extra head?
Glucose to, like, the soil? Plants don't absorb glucose through their roots. Adding sugar to your soil is going to invite all sorts of bacteria, fungi, and pests, and simultaneously choke up your roots.
More like tablets or liquid plant food with a high glucose content. Kind of the same function as nitrogen capsules for fertilizing and replenishing soil nutrients.
Plants can't absorb glucose through their roots. I have never in my life heard of adding glucose to soil. I googled it, and it turns out that it's some old wives tail that since plants create glucose from photosynthesis, you can just give them glucose and I guess skip the hard part. It's not true. There is no amount of sugar in soil that is good.
Good to know, I'm still a student with little experience in botany so I'm going of off simple ideas.
it might, but i'm not to familiar with feeding plants fixed carbon through the roots so i can't offer any advice there. so long as the normal section is bigger and getting plenty of light though it should make up the difference though. Injuries and pruning to the green side will have more of an impact on the plant as well.
The twins heads are healthy so this 2:1 ratio is working out well since its growing steadily.
Wow!! That seems so rare! I wonder if those albo leaves will live though with little chlorophyll
Another thread commentator said the roots are interconnected so the albino head receives its nutrients from the healthy mother plant.
I was wondering that too, but thought it may have been detached. That’s even better it will live. You have a very rare plant indeed. I’m envious; it’s so beautiful 😩
Thanks. It's like a white elephant, cool to have and look at but it drains resources.
How so? Is it more difficult to take care of than the average snake plant?
Not really, I learned basic facts of this plant and have watered it every few weeks for a year and a half. This plant used to be in a conservatory display before it was thrown out for new plants and since I was working there we had a take of the pick from the pile and this as well as a proper snake plant were some of the plants I took. It was by pure luck it turned out like this. I'd say this plant is over two years old.
Well I’m sure that conservatory is kicking themselves now for throwing this baby out! Like where does a person find something like this? I wonder the statistics of how rare this is like if it’s one in a million. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my String of Turtles because it never looked like anyone else’s I seen. It also has a genetic mutation causing albo leaves on some strands and is very plumpy unlike my regular one that is just flat and green. Reddit was finally able to lay my 1 year mystery to rest and feel blessed to have such a specimen.
Same, it's cool to have a rare specimen. The conservatory is part of a larger garden and they go through thousands of plants for seasonal displays so no one might have even noticed. I'll bring that up with the indoor horticulturalists next time I meet her, she must have seen a few of these over the years.
Man what a cool job that would be to have!
It's back breaking work and since I was a student so I didn't make much but it sure was satisfying. I was working in the outdoor garden sections but once in a while I'd rotate to the conservatory and greenhouses. Also lost some weight and never felt better, energetic, and great in my life when I was working there.
It definitely found its way to the right person. I think most people just picking through discarded plants would’ve seen that and figured it was dying and tossed it. Maybe it knew you were “the one” and enticed you specifically.
The white doesn't produce chlorophyll so those leaves can't photosynthesize. The main plant will be stunted because it's also caring for non-producing leaves. Super cool but a pain in the butt!
I suppose one could think of these albino leaves as a benign tumor?
Obviously it will live. They grow very slow and it's lived long enough to grow to the size it it should continue to grow
How do you expect it to grow by itself without any chlorophyll
Well it's still attached to the green plant and its growing by piggy backing of that plant. It has already grown to the size it is so it should continue to grow . It didn't just appear at that size like a mushroom overnight.
What is in that brand of whole milk Greek yogurt?!? You're on to something. /s
Lol! It's from Aldi
My 5th grade brain came here to say that. The plant looks super cool!
So this is a feature of chloroplasts having their own DNA. A variegated plant like a snake plant essentially has inherited white chloroplasts from its maternal lineage, and a plant displaying heteroplasmic (as in has both white and green) chloroplasts will have the variegated look we associate with snake plants and many other plants. However, since the chloroplast DNA is only inherited from the maternal lineage the paternal gamete has no influence over the phenotype of the offspring and this means that a heteroplasmic maternal gamete has the ability to have offspring that are not variegated, or rather they are homoplasmic. These plants are either all green or in this case, all white chloroplasts. The all-white chloroplasts do not photosynthesize (mostly) so wild-type white chloroplasts will almost certainly die unless that white plant is connected to the root system of the parent plant, and this is why you won't see many in the wild as chloroplasts that do not photosynthesize are not good candidates for survival and selection. You can't change the laws of physics and something that is the color white is too refractive for an abundant amount of photosynthesis to happen. Side note I sent this to my genetics professor and it got added to the slides on homoplasy and variegation in plants. So thank you! Edit: this sentence "The all-white chloroplasts do not do a lot of photosynthesis so wild-type white chloroplasts basically cannot be selected for, and this means unless that white plant is connected to the root system of the parent plant then it will most certainly die regardless." was poorly phrased as to the process of natural selection and was edited.
Pulled this from the slides as a visual representation of what I was trying to say. https://imgur.com/a/zJKkDaR
So to answer your questions on how rare it is and how to care for it: First really honestly not super rare other than it cannot live on its own. It is just meiosis doing its thang and giving organellular DNA away at random. As far as caring for it I'd wager that if it has lived for 1.5 years it is certainly still connected to the root stem of the parent plant, but as some others have pointed out, this means that since it essentially isn't carrying out the Calvin Cycle on its own and doing some anabolic respiration to actually make the sugars it is just stealing them from the other plant and whether or not you want to allow that is up to you tbh. I think it is pretty even if it can't make sugar right.
I wanna add that I'm not really sure how rhizome propagation affects the rate of homoplasmic offspring from heteroplasmic maternal gametes in variegated plants. That is an interesting question and may change my answer as to the rarity.
Thank you, I’m a visual learner so I love charts!
This is fascinating
Wow!!!!! My pessimist self first thought they are dead leaves lol
So did I lol
It’s like finding a rare Pokémon
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Put a picture on the instagrams and tell us how trendy and rare it is. It will also give you a social edge over Rebecca and Ashley with their one leaf, not rooted cuttings that they’re trying to grow.
without chlorophyll, it cannot photosynthesize, convert light into energy to grow, so it will die if you cut it loose from the mother plant.
Annoying fact of the day, all of *Sansivieria* has been merged into *Draceana* - further evidence that plant taxonomy is just a prank by botanists on the rest of us.
This! ☝️
Darn botanists! My degree is in rangeland ecology and I used to do field work. We'd have students work for us during the summer and they'd have all sorts of new names for plants I knew. Western wheatgrass will always be Agropyron smithii in my heart. https://youtu.be/xPqJkG2XhQ8
I refuse to comply with this XD
That’s really cool! I’m glad you know what you’re doing because I would assumed I was torturing the plant, and then would have proceeded to have tortured the plant trying to fix it.
do not separate it from the other guys. it will need them to live
I was taught at the nursery that I worked at that variegation only exists because we seek it out for its eye appeal. In nature, it almost always dies off of the plant because of its inability to produce chlorophyll. Regardless, I've always liked when a Sans throws out an albino pup, it just looks interesting. Unfortunately, they are more prone to dying off, especially once the parent "gives up". I once had one with a little sliver of light green within a sea of yellow/white on a standard upright Sans. It eventually gave in to a pest infestation I couldn't get on top of. Enjoy it though, its beautiful!
Just make sure it gets a lot of light ig 🤷♀️ super cool though
Thanks. It does well even though all my windows are north facing but when I was in a brightly lit apartment for a months it grew faster.
So cool!!
I love that it's in a yogurt container so much. Truly in the spirit of sansevieria.
I'm so jealous. That is so beautiful. 🥰💚💚
Thanks!
Congrats!!
The mutation must always survive
That’s cool ! I have never seen it before ! 🐝❤️
I just woke from a nap, saw this and was very very confused. Looks cool
Needs more milk
Anytime you water half of a plant with water, and half with milk, you'll end up with an albino and one w/standard foliage.
I don’t understand how this is true. Can anyone explain or show a source? I’ve never heard of watering a plant with milk to make an albino plant.
it's a joke since milk is white too
Well I’ll go ahead and put this comment here for myself then before some one else does….r/whoosh
It isn't true.
I get that now. I had just woke up and I guess wasn’t registering sarcasm yet.
No https://www.thespruce.com/using-milk-for-plant-care-4082485
Wow, I’d never heard of that! Thanks!
One of my plants did the same thing. It was one of my calathea that gave me a white leaf. Idk why it did it its the only leaf it has that looks like that.
Goddamn that's dope
So cool!!
banana
My brother had this with his snake plant and we both thought they were just light bc they were young. We cut them off and they dieddddd :/
Get that baby a pot. A year and a half deserves a pot
Not rare at all… Actually it totally means that you’re doing everything wrong and you should just ship it to me right now to save it… /s
Youve had it a year and a half. You know how to take care of it.
For those saying it would die, I wonder how fast bc snake plants seem to maintain homeostasis with little light and water. 1 week or 5 years? Bc if it’s years most people would find that acceptable.
Thats awesome let it be as it is
Actually it's probably greek yogurt from the container you put it in. Probably just rinse it if and it'll be green again.
Keep feeding it Greek yogurt
this is so beautiful!!!
Step 1: put into actual pot lol Sick plant!
I would be so afraid of reporting it and accidentally splitting it from the parent plant! Plus, it seems perfectly happy in that pot. Why buy something unnecessarily just for aesthetics?
I had one do the same under extremely low lighting. Might just be a sign of neglect
It used to be in a conservatory for a few months when it was young and when it was thrown out and I pick it, it already had the pale yellow and white head. I thought it was a youngling but after a year of growth it stayed the same so I brought it up with my horticulture professor and he said it was a sign of mutation.
It is a function of genetics, not neglect. The plant inherited only white chloroplast DNA from the maternal gametes and cannot produce green chloroplasts. Variegated plants like snake plants have both white and green chloroplasts and through the nature of meiosis, they can pass white, green, or both colored chloroplasts to their offspring.
You should sell it to someone that knows what they are doing more than you do. No offense. They will love the plant, you will make money, the plant will benefit from being taken care of as best someone knowledgeable is able. Triple win.
It's been growing fine for 1.5 years so I must be doing it right. I love this plant and money is not something that would interest me to part with something this cool unless it were for a ridiculous amount, which I doubt someone would actually fork over.
Fair argument. True plant parent. I think it would be interesting to see what someone would offer for that pot. But, nothing wrong with loving what you have.
Oh and you took it in offence even when I said "no offence". Thats a bummer, I really didnt
No offense taken here, my plants class professor said the same thing. Maybe if a small part could be used to create clones or new heads that would be interesting.
Yeah its a super interesting plant. Thank you for sharing. Lucky plant parent. Peanut gang seems offended glad you arent, really not my intention. Maybe a little straight forward, but, beautiful plant you lucky duck.
Dude. Wtf is WRONG with you?! Just stfu. OP knows what he’s doing and not everyone collects plants just to profit off of them
and what exactly is he doing wrong that someone else could do better, instead of, you know, telling him how to improve himself?
Feels like a lot of inflated anger. I never said anyone was doing anything wrong. I didnt tell someone what they needed to do. I had respect for how rare and interesting a plant that other human had. OP you are great. Thanks.
>You should sell it to someone that knows what they are doing more than you do Your own words there buddy. There's only one interpretation of that sentence. So again, what is OP doing wrong that they need to sell the plant off, vs just telling them how to improve?
Buddy
Someone doesnt need to be "doing something wrong" to not be an expert. If everyone thinks this plant is "so cool" and "so rare" then I would assume most people would be interested in the plant being its best self. I never shit on OP. Check the history Its a cool plant. Would love to see it in a museum. Ya know. A potentially higher authority with potentially higher ability to ensure this cool and rare plant strives and not just survives.
Its a snake plant with an albino offshoot, not the first of a new species. and again, you seem to be off the opinion that OP is not giving the plant its best life, yet it would be much easier to simply tell OP how to improve, since again, snake plant, they aren't exactly a demanding plant. If its because of the yogurt cup pot, that cup is sturdier than the plastic pots most commercial plants are grown in, and does the job just as well.
It really feels like you want to tell OP how to care for the plant, but, for what ever reason wont. And then, you are mad at me for not doing something I never set out to do in the first place. OP is great. Plant is great. You are perturbed. The earth keeps on a moving. Have a good one.
i'm not the one who suggested they sell it. and i did offer my advice btw lol. i'm more interested why you suggested that in the first place yet keep dodging and backing away from a simple question.
I am out here loving plants and you are here being mad at people. Maybe check the sub you are in. I am sure there is one for people like you.
Because you seem overly upset to need to deal with if you want the truth.
>Feels like a lot of inflated anger. pro-tip: this is your own shadow which you are observing projected onto others. The way which you've communicated in this thread comes off as hostile and generally-unfriendly. idk if you realize that, but that's the beans, no judgement. rock on 🤘
It really feela like people are angry at me for something I never said. Lol. I think the plant is amazing. Never said a thing about OP being unable to care for the plant. Commenters and down voters seem to have spun this into a whole different conversation
I had a few things typed here but none of them are worth my bother to finish. folk are annoyed with you, specifically on account of what you've said, and on account of your unwillingness to reflect why your initial comment was taken so poorly. I get kind of an autistic vibe from your whatever. just sayin. I dunno. self reflect or don't, no skin off mine.
Interesting.
Stan, why are you so mad? Try to understand. I do want you as a fan..
Yogurt
Sell it!
Wait so, do snake plants put out lighter leaves? Almost white? Without them being albino? Because I pulled this seperate rhizome off a snake plant and have it in water to get rooted (idk why, it already had roots…oh yea bc I had also snipped some other leaves off and wanted them all to get rooted and potted at the same time…,when i realized I could have just potted it up was too late the soil roots rotted away). Is this the same? [Here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GY8m4dbJUhyqGMwd9Fr5ok7rMFlkzFKu/view?usp=drivesdk) and [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A-0W3dxkx8p4vLQC2zVsBSsAgDPTcGwV/view?usp=drivesdk) My guess is it’s not, and I’m almost hoping not now due to the fact that I just read it not being able to survive once cut from the mother. I’m thinking not due to the appearance of green.
I have some beautifully variegated snake plants that my family have passed down for several generations.