| Description | A quintessential group of creeping vine-like plants that are easy to grow in the indoors. They come in a large variety of leaf colors. |
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| Pronunciation | (tray-dess-CAN-tee-ah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
| Hardiness Zone | Tropical |
| Sunlight | Will tolerate low light conditions but foliage colors are best in bright to moderate light. |
| Moisture | evenly moist |
| Growing Media | average |
| Temperature | average house |
| Flowers | small white to purple flowers found on the tips of the branches |
| Leaves | Color varies from green, variegated, purple, mixed colors, most form vines |
| Stems | trailing, rooting at joints |
| Dimensions | The ultimate size is hard to determine, because they get scraggly and are usually cut back. Easily fills up a 12 inch hanging basket cascading over 2 feet. |
| Maintenance | The stems may become progressively bare from the base. At this point it is best to cut them back. Allow the mother plant to regrow or root the stems to produce new plants. |
| Propagation | easy from tip cuttings |
| Native Site | rain forests of Mexico and South America |
| Cultivar Origin | The genus is named after John Tradescant and his son. They were King Charles I of England gardeners. Traveled all over the world collecting plants. |
| Author's Notes | Most anyone that has grown indoor plants has had one of these in their collection. |
| Notes & Reference | #02-Exotic Plant Manual (Alfred Byrd Graf), #17-The World of House Plants (Elvin McDonald), #158-Plantepedia (Maggie Stuckey) |
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