Zebrina

Family Commelinaceae. Native to Mexico and Central America. Grows in humid forests and on rocky riverbanks, in damp shady spots. Introduced to the Antilles where it has become naturalized. One of the most common houseplants.

Hanging Zebrina - Zebrina pendula Schnizl (Tradescantia zebrina Loud) - is a perennial herbaceous plant with creeping to ascending stems that form tufts. Leaves are alternate, distichous, with tubular sheaths, ovate with an acute apex, 4–6 cm long, 2.5–3 cm wide, reddish-green above with two broad silvery-white longitudinal stripes along the midrib and margin, purple beneath, glabrous, ciliate along the margin. Flowers few, intensely pink, in paired cymes, surrounded by two leaf-like bracts, one of which is considerably larger than the other. There are 3 sepals and 3 petals, fused into a tube.

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