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mother in law tongue and snake plant Shop 'Mother in Law Plant - Sansevieria trifasciata' Snake Plant - Care and InfoIntroducing the Mother in law plant, known as Sansevieria trifasciata (syn. Dracaena trifasciata), a popular hardy houseplant that belongs to the Sansevieria snake plant genus. Native to West Africa, the Sansevieria trifasciata has several other names such as the mother in law tongue plant, Viper's Bowstring Hemp, Saint George's Sword, and Devil's Tongue. These names often refer to the long, sword like leaves that resemble the sharp tongue of a snake.

Introducing the Mother-in-law plant, known as Sansevieria trifasciata (syn. Dracaena trifasciata), a popular hardy houseplant that belongs to the Sansevieria snake plant genus. 

Native to West Africa, the Sansevieria trifasciata has several other names such as the mother-in-law tongue plant, Viper's Bowstring Hemp, Saint George's Sword, and Devil's Tongue. These names often refer to the long, sword-like leaves that resemble the sharp tongue of a snake. This attractive, low-maintenance houseplant can tolerate drought and low light, making it an excellent choice for offices. 

Like other snake plants, these Sansevieria trifasciata mother-in-law tongue plants are known for their tall, upright leaves that grow in a rosette pattern.

These thick and fleshy dark green leaves have variegated patterns of light gray-green.

The leaves can grow up to 12 feet tall in their native habitat, but when grown indoors, they can grow as tall as 2 feet, adding a dramatic touch to any space.  

The mother-in-law tongue flowers are greenish-white and appear on long stalks that rise above the leaves from spring to summer. These Night-blooming snake plant flowers are fragrant and have a lily-like appearance. However, it's important to note that snake plant blooming is relatively rare indoors, and most Snake plant varieties are appreciated for their attractive leaves rather than their blooms. 

Mother in Law Plant Key Features & Benefits

  1. NASA identified the Mother-in-Law Plant as a top air-purifying plant, effective at removing toxins like formaldehyde and toluene.
  2. Its waxy, upright leaves help reduce water loss, making it highly drought-tolerant.
  3. It is considered a symbol of good luck and protection in various cultures, often placed indoors for positive energy.
  4. The Mother-in-law snake plant filters indoor air, supports better mental health, and may reduce allergies, with a lifespan of 5–25 years.
  5. The snake plant releases oxygen at night, making it a great plant for improving bedroom air quality while you sleep.

The Dracaena trifasciata is an excellent beginner plant because of its adaptability to various growing conditions and its easy-to-grow nature, making it a decorative addition indoors.

Other popular snake plants are: the variegated snake plant with yellow variegated edges, the Zeylanica snake plant, the Bird's nest snake plant, and the Cylindrical snake plant. 

When and How to Water Your Snake Plant 

The mother-in-law's tongue plant is known for its ability to tolerate drought and is relatively low maintenance when it comes to watering. In general, it's best to allow the soil to dry out between waterings to avoid overwatering, which can lead to root rot. Your Snake plant prefers watering once every 2-3 weeks in the growing season and once every 4-6 weeks in the dormant season.

In the spring and summer, during the growing season, you can water your mother-in-law plant about once every 2-3 weeks. Be sure to thoroughly saturate the soil, allowing the water to drain out of the bottom of the pot to prevent waterlogged roots. 

In the winter months, when the plant is in a dormant phase, you can reduce watering frequency to once every 4-6 weeks. This allows your mother-in-law's snake plant to rest and prevents overwatering during its slower growth period. 

You can check the moisture level of the soil by sticking your finger about an inch or two into the soil. If it feels dry at that depth, it's a good indication that it's time to water. However, if the soil still feels slightly moist, it's best to wait a bit longer before watering. 

Light Requirements - Where to Place Your Mother-in-Law Plant 

When growing indoors, your snake plants will thrive and grow best in bright, indirect light for 4-6 hours a day.

Placing your Snake plants near a window where they can receive filtered sunlight throughout the day is ideal.

However, they can also tolerate artificial light, making them suitable for offices or rooms with limited natural light. 

When growing outdoors, the Snake plants Sansevieria, prefers bright, indirect light for at least 4-6 hours a day. They can tolerate some direct sunlight, but it's best to provide them with some shade during the hottest parts of the day, especially in regions with intense sunlight. Partial shade or filtered sunlight is generally ideal for outdoor Sensevieria trifasciata Snake plants. 

Optimal Soil & Fertilizer Needs 

The Sansevieria trifasciata favors very airy, sandy potting soil that drains well and should be fertilized once a year in spring. Planting them in ordinary soil will result in compacted roots, stunted growth, and most likely root rot. Instead, make or buy a well-drained cactus potting mix, or ideally use our specialized succulent potting mix that contains 5 natural substrates and mycorrhizae to promote the development of a strong root system that helps your Snake plants to thrive. 

As for fertilizer, the mother-in-law’s tongue plants are not heavy feeders; you can apply a diluted, balanced NPK (5-10-5) liquid fertilizer once a year during the growing season, which is typically spring. It's best to use a general-purpose houseplant fertilizer and dilute it to half the recommended strength.

Remember, it's important not to over-fertilize your Sansevieria Snake plant, as this can lead to the build-up of salt in the soil. This can cause damage to the roots and negatively impact the overall health of the plant. So, when in doubt, it's better to err on the side of caution and fertilize sparingly. 

Hardiness Zones & More 

In the United States, this is mostly an indoor plant, but if you live in southern Florida or Hawaii, then you can cultivate it outdoors in USDA zones 9-11.

In colder zones, the succulent plant Snake Sansevieria can still be grown, but it will need to be grown indoors or in a greenhouse during the winter months to protect it from freezing temperatures. 

While household humidity is generally good enough, these large snake plants will do even better with some extra moisture in the air. Please set up a humidifier nearby or grow them in naturally humid rooms like your bathroom or kitchen. 

How to Best Grow Snake Plant Indoors

When grown indoors, these adorable mother-in-law tongue plants thrive in warm and humid conditions, making them perfect for cozy indoor spaces. With temperatures between 60°F and 75°F, this lovable Dracaena trifasciata is sure to feel right at home. Just make sure not to let them get too chilly - anything below 50°F could spell disaster for your lovey-dovey snake plants.

Wildlife - Snake Plant Attracts the Following Friendly Pollinators

The Mother-in-law's Snake plant is a popular houseplant that is known to attract friendly pollinators such as bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. These pollinators are drawn to the plant's unique flowers, which emit a sweet scent and provide a source of nectar. By welcoming these beneficial insects into your home or garden, you can help support local ecosystems and promote biodiversity.

Butterflies
Bees
Hummingbirds
Lady Bugs
Multi Pollinators
Other Birds

According to ASPCA, the mother-in-law plant is mildly toxic if ingested, primarily due to the presence of saponins. These compounds can cause gastrointestinal distress in both humans and animals, with symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. However, it is safe to touch and handle, making it a popular choice for indoor plants in homes with pets or children.

How to Propagate Your Mother-in-Law's Plant

For mother-in-law snake plant propagation, you can do this easily by offsets and leaf cuttings. When the plants grow at least four inches tall, divide or take cuttings of the healthy leaves to propagate your snake plant in the spring or summer. New shoots can also be potted on their own.

Repotting a snake plant is crucial for its care, recommended every three to five years. It's important to notice roots growing out of the pot's holes, water draining too quickly, roots filling the container, stunted growth, and a dull appearance.

Key Takeaways

  1. The Sansevieria trifasciata is commonly called the “Snake Plant” due to its long, upright leaves with wavy, green banding that resembles snake skin.
  2. This plant was featured in NASA’s Clean Air Study, which found it effective at filtering indoor air pollutants like formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene.
  3. It is considered a symbol of good luck and positive energy in Feng Shui, often placed near entrances or workspaces to promote protection and prosperity.
  4. The plant is extremely drought-tolerant, storing water in its thick, upright leaves and thriving with very little attention.
  5. This mother-in-law snake plant is one of the easiest houseplants to grow, making it a favorite for beginners and those with busy lifestyles.

Final Thoughts

Overall, the Snake plant or Mother-in-law plant (Dracaena trifasciata) is a low-maintenance houseplant that thrives in a variety of conditions. It is native to West Africa and is well-known for its ability to tolerate neglect and survive in low-light environments. This mother-in-law plant has long, sword-shaped leaves that are typically dark green with light green horizontal stripes, giving it a unique and striking appearance. In terms of snake plant care, it prefers a well-drained potting mix with terra cotta pots and only needs to be watered sparingly, as overwatering can lead to root rot. Additionally, it can tolerate a warm indoor temperature between 60-75 degrees Fahrenheit and does not require frequent fertilization.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced plant lover, the Dracaena trifasciata Snake plant for sale is a fantastic choice that will bring beauty and freshness to your home or office.

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This is a fantastic, must read book for anyone interested in the origins of American racism. Morgan recounts the cultural, economic and political evolution of the 17th and early 18th century Virginia, and with it, makes comprehensible the reasons why racial slavery emerged as an integral component to the development of the white community's pre-revolutionary ideals of independence and liberty. At the founding of the Jamestown colony in 1607, Virginia offered vast tracts of land available to anyone willing to make the trip and who could survive their first season (or two or three) in the New World. Unlike in England where opportunities for land ownership were constrained, the fact that Virginia land was to be had for the taking made the economic equation simple - more labor = more profits. To provide this labor, England's surplus poor (of which there was an overabundance) were sent to Virginia as indentured servants for a period of four to seven years in order to work off the costs of their relocation. Once their indenture period was over, they were free.....and poor. Over time, as established interests grabbed more and more of the land, opportunities for released bondsmen decrease, essentially creating an ever-growing class of destitute (and thoroughly despised) whites who threatened the social and political stability of the colony. Racial slavery was introduced over time to stem this proliferation of poor whites, who, after having served the term of their indenture, were free to be a "blight" on the community. These planter elites were also constantly at political war with a succession of governors appointed by the crown to manage the affairs of the colony in a manner most beneficial to the king. By enfranchising poor whites and enlisting their support for the colonial assembly, the elites were able to exercise political power over affairs of the colony in a manner most beneficial to the colonists, rich and poor alike. The result of these forces caused a major adjustment in white social strata - the role of detested poor who would only work under the threat of the lash was imposed upon enslaved blacks, and poor whites were elevated to the level of political partners with the elites. This simultaneously endowed all whites with a fierce sense of entitlement over their political rights and the prerogatives of power on the one hand, and contempt for their black slaves on the other. Liberty and equality came to be seen as inalienable birthrights while slavery was the means by which the "shiftless, lazy, indolent" poor could be transformed from burdens on society to positive (albeit brutally coerced) contributors. In other words, Virginia whites came to think of blacks with the same sense of scorn and contempt that English aristocrats held for the poor in England while, at the same time, assuming as a birthright the same sense of political entitlement enjoyed by the elite class in England. It was this, to our modern eyes, bizarre combination of egalitarian and tyrannical ideals that informed and inspired Jefferson, Washington and Madison (among others) as they participated in the formation of what would become the United States. The implication of this history on modern political discourse is obvious. Those who today passionately cite the liberty-loving ethos of the founding fathers while simultaneously exhibiting contempt for the poor are only looking at one side of the equation. For the Virginians, slavery and liberty went hand in hand; without the one there could not have been the other. A full, rich and nuanced understanding of our heritage compels us to recognize the human inclination to despise and exploit the powerless with the same vigor and passion that we celebrate the ennobling power of freedom. On a final note of criticism - while the book does a masterful job of making the origins of colonial racism comprehensible, it does so at the expense of "black experience" narratives. The story addresses issues of slavery only to the extent of discussing laws passed throughout the pre-revolutionary period in order to institutionalize it and the effect these laws had on the attitudes of whites towards blacks. I started the book expecting a far deeper dive in this area, and was disappointed by how little was presented concerning the evolution of slavery throughout the 17th century from a black perspective. After having read the book, I concede that this deeper dive was not strictly necessary in order for the author to prove his thesis, yet it would have been a stronger work had greater efforts in this area been made.
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I found "American Slavery, American Freedom" to be a thought-provoking book that contained a great deal of useful information. I wrote in the margins of the book, took notes, and highlighted entire pages. "American Slavery, American Freedom" was well-written and enjoyable to read. I had read countless books on slavery over the years. This book did not focus primarily on slavery. A detailed description of the steps and events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth of Virginia can be found in "American Slavery, American Freedom." The history of Virginia is characterized by slavery and servitude. Since many of the books I had read on slavery lacked a compelling backstory, I found this book refreshing. As far as I can tell, the author denied or downplayed the fact that Thomas Jefferson fathered many children with a slave named Sally Hemmings. The author probably worked on this book for years before its publication in 1975. There was a possibility that Edmund Morgan did not want to write about any "touchy" topics. "American Slavery, American Freedom" was a pleasure to read. I would recommend it to others.
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"Racism became an essential, if unacknowledged, ingredient of the republican ideology that enabled Virginians to lead the nation." writes Edmund S. Morgan in 1975, and ends this book with the rhetorical question: "Is America still colonial Virginia writ large?" These are deeply disturbing questions - questions one is compelled to ponder as one reads this lucid and dispassionate presentation of the how primitive accumulation in Virginia at the beginning of the 17th century was replaced a century later by an orderly and opulent society based on slavery. The answer to such questions is not made easy by the realisation that the only other successful republican experiment - the Athenian democracy - blossomed too on a bed of slavery. Do these questions matter today? Have we not moved on from racism? I'm afraid not. Again the voice of Morgan: "In the republican way of thinking, zeal for liberty and equality could go hand in hand with contempt for the poor and plans for enslaving them." Sounds eerily familiar? Just as today's language used to describe terrorist threats is redolent of the rhetoric that once surrounded the lynching of black bodies. Racism (albeit globalised) is re-visiting the land today, and so are republican virtues and values. The book is long, and in some ways, too detailed. Morgan delights in the telling particular, and at times one wishes he would not linger on some specifics. But this has a purpose. He wants to show the imperceptible and surreptitious mechanisms by which a society acquires its ugly and immoral traits until they become so natural as to be invisible. Step by step, event by event, law by law a construction emerges that would have horrified its founders. Yet, at the time, it seamed the logical, and the right thing to do. A strong point in Morgan's narrative is the links he highlights between the developments in Virginia and the Britain's commercial interests, migration policies, population growth and control, state revenue, and political history or thought. One can better appreciate the import of Virginia for Britain and the mother country's fixation and fascination for the North American colonies. Brash and brutal, Virginian slavery stood openly as godmother at the foundation of the American Republic. Other aspects of slavery also contributed significantly - but as they were indirect, they remained veiled and are hardly recognised even today. New England benefited greatly from its cod trade to the Caribbean, where the product that was found to be unfit for European markets was fed to the slaves, thus freeing up land that otherwise would have been used to sustain them. When will we get a total picture of slavery's import for America's economic foundations?
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This book lays out hte paradox, how a country could develop a "national character" founded on the love of liberty while simultaneously importing thousands and thousands of bondsmen to provided the "free people" with the necessities of life: i.e., why slavery was necessary to support the kind of freedom the white folk wanted to become accustomed to.... and implicitly, why the industrial revolution finally changed the hearts and minds of enough Americans to make slavery seem unnecessary and therefore, if was no longer a necessary evil, why it had to be overthrown. Morgan writes objectively -- but his feelings are always detectable through his writing style, which is perhaps the best academic English to be found anywhere. I found it gripping. The book was published in 1972, and has doubtless been corrected by many subsequent researchers in some of its particulars -- but it was the fountainhead for a new way of understanding American history that young people all have learned about in high school, but which many baby-boomers have never seriously encountered. Reading it accomplished a MAJOR retrofit in my sense of how the USA got to be the way it is today. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Tea Party and many trump supporters seem to adhere to the values of the original American Republicans [and to think that Black folk should be pushed back to a place where their feelings don't matter], and to long for a return to the status quo ante -- with ante referring to a time long LONG ago
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Kindle edition worked well. Very interesting and insightful read by a first rate historian. Tells the story of how our ancestors transitioned from Englishmen to Americans. A book well worth taking the time to read.
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