Botanical Name:Tradescantia pallida If you've never grown Purple Heart Plant, you may want toadd it to your collection. It's in the spiderwort family along with the purple-and-silvery green striped Inch Plant, and you'll find it's just as easy to grow.T. pallidais also known asSetcreas...
This also applies to zebrina’s popular cousins, like Tradescantia fluminensis, T. pallida, and T. spathacea. Description It’s not difficult to see why Tradescantia zebrina gained popularity as a houseplant. Wandering spiderwort plants (not to be confused withspider plants, another beginner-frie...
Tradescantia pallida is native to a wide area of Mexico from Tamaulipas east to Veracruz and south to the Yucatan peninsula. The name Tradescantia honors John Tradescant the elder (1570s-1638), an 17th century English naturalist, who was a collector and traveler and the gardener to the Earl ...
In contrast, in species with radially symmetrical corollas, such as Costus spicatus (Zingiberaceae) and Tradescantia pallida (Commelinaceae), these genes are expressed homogeneously or are undetectable (Bartlett and Specht, 2011; Preston and Hileman, 2012). Another group 20 gene, RETARDED PALEA1 (...