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Spider Plant Flowering Experiment

A year or so ago, Lucy's mum kindly gave us a pot of three spider plants. I'd not had one before and had never seen them flower, so decided to find out how to get ours to flower.

The spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) hails from tropical and Southern Africa and was first formally described by the celebrated Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg as Anthericum comosum in 1794; after being moved around in a taxonomic version of musical chairs, it eventually ended up in the genus, Chlorophytum in 1862. Chlorophytum comosum has a small selection of popular variegated cultivars.
Ours, I think being C. comosum 'Vittatum'.
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