A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The House Plant Forum Unsure what this plant is called.

We recently visited a year-round greenhouse just to enjoy some green for a few minutes. Anyway, while there we bought a couple of plants, but I am having trouble with the identity of one of them. It is a trailing plant that has green and white leaf tops and magenta/purple bottoms. Its very pretty, and has tiny white blooms on the ends of the trailers. 3 segments to each of the blooms. My original thought was a wandering jew, but its not waxy like a wandering jew plant. The leaves are thinner and the tops have sort of a rough texture. I've had house plants for many years, but never seen anything like this one.





I may be wrong it may be a wandering jew plant, but its unlike the ones I've ever seen before, the leaves are more the texture of a philodendren.
Any suggestions are always welcome! THANKS

Welcome, Jason. That is a wandering Jew, Tradescantia zebrina.

That be one of the prettiest wandering jews I've ever seen. I love the colours in it.

I think they live forever.
Mine is purple

I have many of those. I have about 3-4 different species. Very easy to grow and grow very fast. Alltho, I do have one that isn't growing much and lost allmost all of its stems and leaves.

Just to let you know, there are about 60 different species of Tradescantia. Including outdoor perenial ones.