"Cereus-validus-..........." wrote in message
m...

Wrong.



Setcreasea purpurea is not an accepted name.



Its correctly named Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Heart', a purple leafed
cultivar of the species.

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but, but, Cereus, in The Houseplant Expert book on page 222, it shows a
picture of Setcreasea purpurea in flower, next to it, a water colour drawing
(very well done which is the way the original book used to be, but I have
both, the older one and the newer edition that came out in the early 90's
that has both water colour and real photo's which the original book didn't)
of what the plant would look like in a clay pot and underneath that, S.
purpurea and underneath THAT Purple Heart, and then a deffinition of
"Setcreasea purpurea is a straggly plant which makes up for its untidiness
by it's attractive colour-- a rich purple when grown in good light. He
leaves are slightly hairy and pink flowers appear in summer". unquote. Next
to a most impressive picture and drawing of Siderasis which is S. fuscata or
the Brown Spiderwort that I was speaking of earlier, btw. If someone has
recently decided that it's not acceptable to call Purple Heart or Purple
Boat, which is what I also knew it by (from the old Hyponex houseplant book
which was my FIRST plant book, btw, and not by any means my last, as I'm up
to over 249 books on gardening now) I'm not surprised, but will continue to
call them by both their Latin names as well as their common names. g

but that's jess me.....GBSEG

maddie

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Persephone wrote On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:41:30 -0600, kate
m wrote This is the first
year I've had potted hardy perennials and it looks like middle TN is about
to plunge into low temps. I've got carnations, some form of wandering jew
and bee balm. Will they over winter outside in their plastic pots or should
I a)plant them or b)bring them inside?



Kate - who finally planted garlic yesterday Just a personal opinion --
but -- I find the term "wandering jew" so distasteful, that I prefer to use
the botanical name. At a nursery I would ask for the plant by its botanical
name.



Googling "Wandering Jew" yields +++++ Common name: "Zebrina Wandering Jew"

Latin name: Tradescantia zebrina - synonym Zebrina pendula +++++ Note that
the Latin name says nothing about Jews. The meaning is "trailing" or
"hanging".



One has to wonder how this unfortunate nomenclature arose.



Sorry, didn't mean to offend. The latin name turns out to be Setcreasea
purpurea.



Peace, Kate