Have extras of Aptenia Red Apple, Gold Moss Sedum, Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Heart' to a good home. Interested please email jenlee_49@yahoo.com

This is a photo of a Tradescantia pallida. While, at times, they do have a little fine fuzz that you hardly even pay any attention to unless you get up close. I am trying to figure out the one that looks like a mammal that has grown a set of fur for the winter. The previous photos are all of the SAME plant. Definitely not a Tradescantia pallida and almost certain it isn't a Tradescantia sillamontana. Oh, by the way, Tradescantia pallida became the accepted name in 1955 with Setcreasea purpurea as a synonym. Many websites still use the old name, though. It is really hard to keep up with the correct names when some companies don't change them with the botanists do. I have several photos of the Purple Heart taken at various times of the year and in different locations and they will be on my blog, The Belmont Rooster, shortly. Maybe even today...

There are some strange things going on with GW, including disappearing comments. The glitch with double posts seems to have something to do with non-computer devices, like the sideways pics from iphones. I think GW is aware of both. I also think that on computers, people sometimes double-click buttons. (My Dad could not be convinced some things only need to be clicked once.) Also, GW connects to sooooo many spy-on-you things that take forever to connect, I think sometimes people think they didn't really click the first time, and click again. However many times you can click submit before it finally changes to "your message has been posted" is how many times it will show up in the thread. Fun to play with on test forum, but no doubt distracting in convos. PG, you're absolutely right about other types of sites as more reliable resources. If any of them had an interest in arcane ground-cover type tropical plants, or even such natives, that would be great. I can't find any such thing besides how to kill them in my lawn or keep them out of my crop. I'd contact you privately, but that's disabled. Just before reading the Thu, Jul 18, 13 at 17:07 comment, I was reading something else, I didn't like it, I think you will know what I mean, and that was on my mind when I replied. I didn't notice enough to remember what the web page with the pic of the mystery plant said, just that it didn't contain the botanical epithet. Your comment makes much more sense now, and I wish that page would have been worded differently also. But still seems out of place. I'm sorry you found it offensive but sure you know I have no idea who it belongs to, nor the person who shared the pic with me. Sharing it was not meant to offend anyone, and sure you also know that's the most common common name (partially, as you said) for plants of this type. Sending a note to the person who wrote the page would have sent your comments in what I consider a more appropriate direction. Argument was the wrong word, unnecessarily inflammatory would have been a more accurate interpretation of my take on it. I sincerely apologize that you were offended, and to anyone else who might have also been. I am removing the link.

Okay this is another time I really wished this forum had an edit feature. I hav two plants that resemble your plant, and somehow I morphed them together in my mind. I am not sure what #2 is but I don't think it is purple heart, however if you want it, you are welcome to it. It is a gorgeous plant. Your plant looks like this: I have two regular purple hearts, and varigated versions of another purple plant (pics follow). I am so sorry I got excited and jumped the gun before I double-checked. I know that when you have your heart set on a plant it is amazing to find it :(. Jo