Sansevieria hyacinthoides in the grass

Sansevieria hyacinthoides is found in South Africa from the Eastern Cape to the Lowveld where this colony was spotted in the Sabie area in July. Underground these separate growth points are connected via rhizome runners from one base. If you have one doing well in the garden, it may eventually also be a colony like this, the vigorously creeping rhizomes allowing more tufts of a few leaves each to show above-ground.

Looking a little miserable here with the leaves curled in during the winter dry season, the summer rain will change all of that. Both leaves and rhizomes are succulent, the plants are hardy.

The pale green blotches on the leaves are variable, may also be just mottling. There are sometimes red margins on the sharply edged leaves (Onderstall, 1984; Smith and Crouch, 2009).