Tradescantia

The Tradescantia or setcréasées are plants Monocotylédones of the family of the Commelinaceae . It is a kind gathering herbaceous plants coming from America, with the sheets engainantes and the flowers with three petals.

They are familiarly called miseries, because of their tendency to colonize spaces, or transitory, because each flower saw only one day (but the plant continues all the same to flower during time).

Some of them, such “miseries crimsons” ( Tradescantia pallida ) are appreciated for their decorative foliage in apartment. Others, like the transitory one of Virginia, are appreciated in the gardens of share their foliage and their flowering.

List species

  • Tradescantia ×andersoniana W. Ludwig and Rohweder
  • Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britt.
  • Tradescantia brevifolia (Torr.) Rose
  • Tradescantia buckleyi (I.M. Johnston) D.R. Hunt
  • Tradescantia crassifolia Cav.
  • Tradescantia crassula Link and Otto
  • Tradescantia ×diffusa Bush (pro sp.)
  • Tradescantia edwardsiana Tharp
  • Tradescantia ernestiana E.S. Anderson and Woods.
  • Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
  • Tradescantia gigantea Rose
  • Tradescantia hirsuticaulis Small
  • Tradescantia will hirsutiflora Bush
  • Tradescantia humilis Rose
  • Tradescantia will leiandra Torr.
  • Tradescantia longipes E.S. Anderson and Woods.
  • Tradescantia occidentalis (Britt.) Smyth
  • Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.
  • Tradescantia ozarkana E.S. Anderson and Woods.
  • Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D.R. Hunt
  • Tradescantia paludosa E.S. Anderson and Woods.
  • Tradescantia pedicellata Celarier
  • Tradescantia pinetorum Greene
  • Tradescantia reverchonii Bush
  • Tradescantia roseolens Small
  • Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
  • Tradescantia subacaulis Bush
  • Tradescantia will subaspera Ker-Gawl.
  • Tradescantia tricolor Hort. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia tharpii E.S. Anderson and Woods.
  • Tradescantia virginiana L.
  • Tradescantia wrightii Rose and Bush
  • Tradescantia zanonia (L.) Sw.
  • Tradescantia zebrina hort. ex Bosse

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