Hello. I dearly hope someone here can help me with this plant that we've had for over 30 years now and still no one knows what it is. But of course there aren't many botanists in our family or circle of relatives either. I just cleaned the little bugger from dust and got curious about what it might be? I guess i'll try to describe it as much as i can: It drinks water every day, but can also go without it for weeks and still survive easily. This plant had a very rough time a few years ago when a certain individual passed away and the plant didn't receive water for about a month as noone was there to water it. It has no blossoms/flowers. Only leaves. It has fairly good cold resistance as during the winter i constantly(practically every night) kept my window slightly open with -10 to -20 degrees outside and the plant was only a meter from the window. They really overdo it with the heating in the winter around here and it was impossible to sleep with a closed window. The lack of light throughout the whole winter months also hasn't really done much harm to it. Although it's clearly visible that it's more healthier during the summer. The stems are cylindrical and tough to break, as it is hard to see from the pictures. That's all i could come up with for the moment. I am sure any professional will know what to look for, so ask away if more information is needed. PICTURES: http://*******.org/gallery/1pbm6lre/0aa4a0b1/ Any help would be much appreciated!
Ahaaaa, thank you very much for that answer. However... we did have a peace lily besides this plant. How come, if you say this one is also a peace lily, it didn't get any blossoms/flowers? It only has leaves and has had them for the past 30 years. Never bloomed. Gender?
Probably culture. Some varieties are more spontaneous bloomers than others. My peace lilies are more likely to bloom if I increase the amount of light and/or fertilizer. Supposedly they also bloom more readily if they are potbound, though my experience is that being potbound or not isn't a factor in blooming. Growers typically force blooming using sprays of plant hormones, which allegedly reduce the plant's ability to bloom on its own later. However, I haven't found that to be the case with my own plants, and haven't seen any actual evidence that it's the case with other people's plants: more light or more fertilizer or both has always worked for me.
