Sansevieria trifasciata 'Bantels Sensation'

Sansevieria trifasciata cv. Bantel's Cultivar Synonyme: Sansevieria Bantels Sensation, Sansevieria trifasciata Bantels Sensation, Samsevieria Bantel Sense, Sansevieria grey needle, Sansevieria trifasciata grey needle  Sensation (a.k.a. White Stripped Sansevieria, White Stripped snake plant) is a beautifully elegant variegated cultivar with 60-90 cn long, 4 cm wide wide dark green leaves that are dramatically banded with snow white streaks. It is a stemless perennial succulent herb forming dense stands, spreading by way of its creeping rhizome. This species can bloom in summer with sweetly fragrant greenish white flowers but this cultivar rarely seems to do so.  History: This plant was discovered by Gustav Bantel of St. Louis, Missouri who patented the plant (PP 796) in 1948. On the patent application Mr. Bantel stated "The primary object in carrying out this invention was to fix the unusual dark olive green leaves and silver white longitudinal stripes of the leaves, their slender transversely concave rapier shape, and their nearly vertical stiff erectness, diverging upwardly from a short basal rosette." He described the plant as "similar to ordinary sansevieria … however, it differs distinctly in having its slender ensiform leaves stiffly erect, deeply channeled in the lower portion, extending to 70 cm or more in height with a greatest width about 3-4 well above the middle and then gradually tapering in graceful curvature to an acute stiff point … In colour the inner...