Details
| Full name | Tradescantia pallida ‘Marley’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Registered in 2025, the name will be established once published in hardcopy (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
| Origins | Spontaneous mutation, collected from the rainforest in Jamaica around 2023. (The registrant originally gave the origin as Puerto Rico, but corrected the mistake later in 2025.) Named by Misty Diaz in Katy, Texas, USA. Collected, registered, and introduced by Samantha McMahon in Windsor Heights, Iowa, USA. |
| Classification | The species Tradescantia pallida is sometimes labelled with its botanical synonyms Setcreasea pallida and Setcreasea purpurea. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Newly introduced in the USA. |
Description
Described by Samantha McMahon.
| Species | Tradescantia pallida. |
| Growth habit | Grows straight up and often over the pot. |
| Foliage | Leaves to around 10-13cm long by 3.5cm wide, similar to ‘Purpurea’. Leaves have random sectoral variegation of dark bluish-green and lime green, with pink margins and tiny hairs. |
| Flowers | Profuse pink flowers. |
| Comparisons | Compared to ‘Pink Stripe’, the variegation is similar but with less purple colours. |
References
Brickell, C. D., Alexander, C., Cubey, J. J., David, J. C., Hoffman, M. H. A., Leslie, A. C., Malécot, V., Jin, X. (2016). International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. PDF link.