Tradescantia zebrinais a traditional easy-care houseplant with variegated olive and silver foliage with purple undersides. There's also a variety with leaves that are purple on both sides with silvery green stripes on the upper surface. Stems root readily in water or where they come in contact...
Economic importance includes ornamental cultivars, such as Rhoeo, Tradescantia, and Zebrina, and some local medicinal and edible species. See Faden (1998) and Evans et al. (2003) for recent treatments and phylogenetic analyses of the family. The Commelinaceae are distinctive in being mostly ...
Tradescantia zebrina Heynh. ex Bosse is found to be the correct citation for this common plant, although the older name Tradescantia zebrina Heynh. has been used for it in some recent publications and on-line databases. The Heynhold citation lacks a description and therefore it is an invalid ...
Botanical Name:Tradescantia zebrina Light, humidity and water are the keys to Inch Plant care. Give this tropical native what it wants and it will reward you with colorful, glistening foliage, making it a stunning houseplant all year round. ...
What’s in a name? In the case of common houseplants, sometimes a lot. Tradescantia zebrina is a classic houseplant (I found mention of it in a 1964 German book about houseplants, but it’s probably been around longer than that!) and among most English speakers, it has long been known...
Tradescantia is a genus of about 70 species of flowering perennial plants, most commonly called spiderworts. While tradescantia...
zebrina was also corroborated by Cheah et al. (2017). A common practice of using Tradescantia leaves as a form of beverage was also evaluated in a few studies. When the leaves of T. spathacea were subjected to two aqueous extraction methods used to prepare said beverages (decoction and in...