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.

Hmmm... I kinda figured it might be a tradescantia because it's growth habit is almost exactly like the tradescantia fluminensis pictured below: Only real differences that I can see are: of course the bloom color, the leaves on the one in question are a slightly darker green and with purplish spots on them, and the leaves are maybe not quite as long in proportion to their width. On the other hand, if it's a trillium, that'd be great, as I've wanted some trillium for my shade garden. Thanks for your input. Amanda :)

Yes I agree. I found some like that this summer too, with the pretty pink hues. Hope it blooms in the spring to see if the flowers are white. Have you seen this guy bloom? The plants at the store had reversions too, plain green, much more vigorous shoots from the same stems. I put it in the ground thinking it would grow faster, but it's super slow.

T. zebrina is absolutely a succulent. Yale, there are several cultivars out there with slightly different colors, variable in different amounts of light. EA is selling 'Red Hill' as a cultivar of T. zebrina but it seems to be T. cerinthoides, which that is definitely not, by either name. That's my fav look - when it looks like there's glitter inside the leaf. Not too much shade, or too much sun. - Tiffany Edited because I sneezed & prematurely submitulated. This post was edited by purpleinopp on Fri, Dec 6, 13 at 15:16