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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Katherine J on December 13, 2007, 10:10:56 AM

Title: Exotic plant
Post by: Katherine J on December 13, 2007, 10:10:56 AM

What is this, please? ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: Exotic plant
Post by: Maggi Young on December 13, 2007, 12:38:34 PM

Hello, Kata,
I think this is a Tradescantia  but I'm not sure which species would have these grey furry leaves... ???
Maybe Tradescantia sillamontana ?

Title: Re: Exotic plant
Post by: Carlo on December 13, 2007, 01:05:57 PM

It is indeed Tradescantia sillamontana (which died back to the ground in a pot here but survived the winter in the bulb cellar). It's most often grown as an interior plant in high light.

Title: Re: Exotic plant
Post by: Katherine J on December 13, 2007, 04:32:02 PM

Thanks, Maggi and Carlo.
It also died back on the balcony of my sister-in-law in Frosinone, Italy (near Roma). I should tell her not to leave it outside for the winter any more. :) I see it is native to Mexico.

Title: Re: Exotic plant
Post by: Carlo on December 13, 2007, 04:38:03 PM

As long as it hasn't frozen TO DEATH, it will recover from being frozen back to the ground. When I bring them in in the fall, I typically snap the branches off (very easy to root) to the ground and throw them under a bench. They begin growing almost immediately and get broken back again before they are put out when the weather warms in mid spring.