Botanical Name: Sansevieria hyacinthoides
Common Name: Mother-in-law's Tongue

 

Use: Outdoors / indoors
Indigenous/Exotic : Indigenous
Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
Plant Type : Perennial succulent
Flower Colour :  White
Foliage Colour : Variegated yellow or white and green
Best Season : Summer
Light : Semi shade to sun
Hardiness : Hardy
Attributes :  
Height (m) :  0.50
Spread (m) : 0.20
    
Notes: A fast-growing, drought-resistant plant with variegated, tongue-shaped foliage and sturdy flowering stalks tipped with masses of tiny, whitish flowers. It grows very easily and needs little attention. Perfect for large gardens or difficult areas and may be mass planted in a rockery to form a hardy ground cover. It does well in a container indoors in a well-drained potting mix, but be careful not to overwater. Plant the mother-in-law’s tongue in sun or partial shade, in any soil, adding plenty of compost, and water sparingly. Propagate from seed, leaf cuttings or by division of the larger clumps.

 

It grows amongst rocks under trees, in the eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Swaziland, the Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Botswana and Namibia.