Yes in very warm and very humid areas some of the tropicals really behave differently. LIke Sanseveria, they can take being flooded for months as long as kept always warm like in the high 80's and outdoors. But do it here in our fluctuating day and night temperatures you will get a dead plant. And our rains here as seasons change can be very cold rain. In the tropics rain is warm too.
I have seen some other tropical plants in the Phils grown in those bog like conditions especially when it is already typhoon season with those incessant rains, but soil there is loam soil and some volcanic parts too and the plants are planted in ground, so there is much wiggle space for the roots and the plants flourish so well.
