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Tradescantia albiflora Kunth






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Tradescantia L. (ムラサキツユクサ)
O-tokiwatsuyukusa (オオトキワツユクサ, 大常盤露草), inch plant or wandering Jew
Life form: evergreen perennial forb
Distribution: native to south America (Brazil and northern Argentina)

introduced to Japan in the early Showa Era

Habitat: roadsides, weste lands, etc. (in Japan)

escaped to Honshu

Leaf: green
Use: ornamental and gardening
Synonyms:

Tradescantia fluminensis, when merged into this species

Cultivars:
cv albo-vittata (シラフオオトキワツユクサ)
索引

Tradescantia albiflora in the greenshouse of CAST, Hokkaido University


cv albo-vittata

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] in the greenhosue of Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. [1] on July 21 2019. [2/3] on March 6 2020.

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