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- a gift from a friend. - grows faster without mid-day sun but can take it - hardy here (lived in a pot outside all winter) - slightly larger, lighter-green leaves Plant #2:
Both have been placed in various amounts of sun and always look different from each other. No flowers from either. Which of these is the real C. repens? What is the other one? Plant #1
Plant #2
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| I would still have to lean strongly toward a strain of Tradescantia fluminensis for plant #1. I had a plant that was almost identical but with light gray-green leaves (no gold or yellow) and green stems (no red), with perhaps slightly less internodal length. But, by golly, foliage shape and growth habit are identical. hortster |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, Aug 7, 12 at 9:45
| Thanks for the input! Yes, these Callisias/Tradescantias have got me confused, but in a fun way. You're leaning the same way I am, that #2 is C. repens and #1 is a mystery. Wouldn't T. fluminensis be expected to have bloomed at some point though? (Assuming it's happy and healthy, which it seems to be from the rate of growth.) Had both since spring of '11, which I failed to mention originally... |
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| Supposed to bloom white with 3-petaled flowers. It was a number of years ago, but I don't recall any bloom, just rapid growth with a very similar appearance. Now you have me wondering! hortster |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 21:02
| Had a Homer Simpson moment (Doh!) while pondering these plants earlier. The back of #1's leaves are the same color as the front: |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 21:03
| The back of #2's leaves is purple: |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Mon, Aug 13, 12 at 9:45
| Any further thoughts? |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Aug 17, 12 at 9:14
| Ok I think I have figured this out. Plant #2 is Callisia repens. Plant #1 is seen at Glasshouse Works website, "CALLISIA ITSY BITSY" and is unidentified regarding species. Hard to believe nobody has gotten around to naming this plant. Plants listed in alphabetical order here, if anyone wants to look. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Apr 25, 13 at 10:41
| How do people feel about calling plant #1 Callisia monandra? I don't know what color 'eggshell blue' is, as reported for the Glasshouse Works plant, but the flowers on my plant were definitely white. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Sun, Apr 28, 13 at 13:13
| Bueller... Bueller... Bueller... Anyone? Anyone?... |
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- Posted by shear_stupidity 9B (My Page) on Sun, Apr 28, 13 at 16:36
| Omg, how funny! I just started reading this thread and was thinking, "her hands look like purple's." And then I realized it IS you! LOL! |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 9:10
| Hey, SS! Welcome to my mystery. |
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