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Good news: “Snake plants are fairly resistant to pests,” Margareta tells us, however they can occasionally fall victim to common household plant invaders like spider mites, gnats, and mealybugs.
A snake plant left on top of a filing cabinet in an office cubicle far from a window won’t need watering as much as the same plant set in front of a sunny, southern-facing window.
Temperature. A snake plant in colder temperatures requires less water than in warmer temperatures, says Hancock. This is because in cooler temperatures, the plant leaves keep the stomata closed ...
Dracaena trifasciata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to tropical West Africa from Nigeria east to the Congo. It is most commonly known as the snake plant, Saint George's sword, mother-in-law's tongue, and viper's bowstring hemp, among other names. [2] Until 2017, it was known under the synonym Sansevieria ...
Dogbane, dog-bane, dog's bane, [citation needed] and other variations, some of them regional and some transient, are names for certain plants that are reputed to kill or repel dogs; "bane" originally meant "slayer", and was later applied to plants to indicate that they were poisonous to particular creatures.
[1] [2] [3] Common names for the 70 or so species formerly placed in the genus include mother-in-law's tongue, devil's tongue, jinn's tongue, bow string hemp, snake plant and snake tongue. [4] In the APG III classification system , Dracaena is placed in the family Asparagaceae , subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). [ 5 ]
Dog owners know that sometimes dogs tend to linger around the kitchen — particularly at mealtime, likely hoping for a scrap to haphazardly make its way onto the floor and into their belly.
The plant's common name derives from the plant's resemblance to the unrelated Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry, also known as mercury, markry, markery, Lincolnshire spinach). Since Mercurialis perennis is highly poisonous, it was named "dog's" mercury (in the sense of "false" or "bad"). [4] It has also been known as boggard posy.