tradescantia green - GARDEN
For Valentine’s Day, I bought my wife a Tradescantia Nanouk, a highly popular indoor plant thanks to its leaves with white, pink, and green stripes. A week later, she was still crowing about this ... Tradescantia, or Wandering Willie, is a low-maintenance houseplant with arching stems and velvety green leaves tinged with purple.
Understanding the Context
It thrives in both low and bright light, adding colour indoors. Trailing Tradescantia is prized for its fast-growing, cascading habit, making it an excellent choice for hanging baskets or as a trailing plant in mixed containers. There are approximately 70 herbaceous species of Tradescantia native to the New World. Linnaeus named the genus for John Tradescant the Elder, an eminent English plant explorer of the seventeenth century.
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Key Insights
Trailing, soft, hairless, perennial groundcover with succulent, soft, creeping stems that root at all nodes touching the ground. Dark green, shiny, smooth and slightly fleshy leaves (3-6 cm long ) are oval with pointed tips. White flowers (2 cm diameter, Dec-Jan) are 3-petalled and in small clusters. No fruit or seed is produced in New Zealand.