Actually, they are commonly called "Snake Plants".

Your mother mixed up the two names. There is nothing about the plant that is
forked like a snake's tongue.


Tracey wrote in message
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At least you didn't say "Mother's in Law Tongue"!!!

Oh, yeah, probably because my mother always called
those 'snake's tongue'...probably because we lived
right across the road from her MIL/my grandmother
and she didn't want us carrying *that* name across
the road.

Tracey