If you search online for information about variegated plants, you’ll find plenty of blog posts offering to explain how variegation works and describing two or three different types. I’ve read lots of those posts, both when I was first learning, and more recently when I’ve wanted to explain things to other people. But they’ve never […]
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An FAQ about plant growth regulators (PGRs), covering how and why they are used, and what effects they have on plants.
There are eighteen different named cultivars of Tradescantia zebrina. Distinguishing them can be tricky!
Learn the tricks for distinguishing sectoral and marginal variegation in Commelinaceae.
Find out how to distinguish between the three variegated cultivars of Tradescantia zebrina – ‘Quadricolor’, ‘Discolor Multicolor’, and ‘HappiLee’.
Find out how to distinguish between Tradescantia fluminensis ‘Variegata’ and ‘Yellow Hill’.
You might have noticed some ‘Purple Heart’ plants look different to others. That’s because there are actually two different types!
Sometimes this plant is labelled as Tradescantia × andersoniana ‘Blushing Bride’, and sometimes it’s labelled as Tradescantia fluminensis ‘Maiden’s Blush’. But these names actually refer to two completely different cultivars!
Some people have suggested the plant has symptoms of a viral infection. Some have even gone as far as to claim that the plant should be quarantined or banned from sale for fear that it’s contagious. Others have grown the plant for years and report no evidence of the symptoms spreading to nearby plants.