Tradescantia

Tradescantia virginiana

Three master Flowers ( Tradescantia ), also called God's eyes, are a genus of flowering plants in the family of Commelina family ( Commelinaceae ). Many Tradescantia species are suitable as house plants, with different colored leaves. Some species tolerate relatively low light location.

Description

There are perennial herbaceous plants, some species are succulent. As in monocot plants, the blooms are triple usual. The flowers are radially. The two Blütenhüllblattkreise are markedly different polymorphic, so they have sepals and petals. The bloom are usually free or fused only at the base a little. They are insulated draft tube capsule fruits with one to two seeds per chamber. When planting in ornamental gardens should be noted that some species reproduce weed -like and it is very difficult to control these plants.

Dissemination

Their original home is the Neotropics. Some species are unpopular as neophytes " weeds ".

System

The first description was by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum was published in 1753.

The genus Tradescantia includes the following species and varieties:

  • Tradescantia ambigua Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Tradescantia anagallidea Seub.
  • Tradescantia x andersoniana W.Ludw. & Rohweder
  • Tradescantia andrieuxii C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia boliviana ( Hassk. ) J.R.Grant
  • Tradescantia brachyphylla Greenm.
  • Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britton
  • Tradescantia brevifolia ( Torr. ) Rose
  • Tradescantia buckleyi ( I.M.Johnst. ) D.R.Hunt
  • Tradescantia burchii D.R.Hunt
  • Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth
  • Tradescantia cirrifera Mart.
  • Tradescantia commelinoides Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Tradescantia crassifolia Cav. Tradescantia crassifolia var crassifolia
  • Tradescantia crassifolia var acaulis ( M.Martens & Galeotti ) CBClarke
  • Tradescantia occidentalis var occidentalis
  • Tradescantia occidentalis var Melanthera MacRoberts
  • Tradescantia occidentalis var scopulorum (Rose) ESAnderson & Woods.
  • Tradescantia subaspera var subaspera
  • Tradescantia subaspera montana var ( Shuttlew. ex Small & Vail ) ESAnderson & Woods.
  • Tradescantia zebrina var zebrina
  • Tradescantia zebrina var flocculosa ( G.Brückn. ) DRHunt
  • Tradescantia zebrina var mollipila D.R.Hunt

To this extent, the genus Tradescantia is monophyletic.

Synonyms of the genus are Campelia Rich. (1808 ), Zebrina Schnizl. (1849 ), Rhoeo Hance (1852 ), Treleasea Rose (1899, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ) and Setcreasea K.Schum. & Syd. (1901 ).

Description of individual species

The Virginia Spiderwort ( Tradescantia virginiana L.) is a perennial herbaceous plant with delicate stems and ascending, long, narrow leaves that form at the base of a vagina. The flowers are in panicles, consist of three outer and three inner, vividly colored parts, which are usually turquoise blue but sky blue, pink or in white varieties. In today's Dreimasterblume but it is probably no longer the original type, as the cultivated forms are often considered hybrids of the original style with the Tradescantia Tradescantia pilosa or subaspera. The six stamens are all the same length, the stamens covered with long, purple hair. The flowers wither after only one day, but there always seem new, the plant blooms throughout the summer.

White flowered God's eye, also known as Rio Spiderwort ( Tradescantia fluminensis Vell, .. (Syn. Tradescantia albiflora Kunth, Tradescantia viridis hort ex Gentil )) The white-flowered God's eye is a small plant with horizontal handle and a few centimeters long, fairly broad, completely green leaves. culture in the form of Tradescantia albiflora cv aureovittata yellow stripes. The plant rarely flowers and white flowers offer no special appeal. It comes from South America.

The Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth ( syn.. T. blossfeldiana Mildbr ) comes from Argentina and has been released some time ago as a houseplant in the floral industry. The whole plant is covered with long reddish and also reddish hair.

Tradescantia spathacea Sw. (Syn. Rhoeo discolor (L' Hér. ) Hance ), looks like a dragon tree. Your up to 20 or 30 cm long leaves are green on top and purple on the bottom. It is native to Central America.

Botanical history

The genus was the younger, and his father John Tradescant the Elder named after John Tradescant. John Tradescant the Younger came to Virginia in 1637, one of the first areas colonized America, and sent new plants to England, among others, the cypress, the lobelia and some Phlox species.

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