Synonym: Rhoeo discolor, Tradescantai discolor, Rhoeo spathaceae.
English: Boat lily; Cradle lil; Oyster Plant; Moses-in-the-Cradle; Moses in His Cradel; Moses on a Raft; Moses in the Bulrushes; Men in a Boat; Spiderwort; Wandering Jew.
Culture: Song “Old man” of Neil Young.
Region: Belize, Guatemala, southern Mexico.
Use: widely cultivated as an ornamental
Clades:
Angiospermae,
Lilianae;
Liliidae;
Commelinoids;
Commelinales;
Stage 16.
Botany: semi-epiphytic herbaceous shrub with fleshy underground rhizomes; leaves clumping rosettes, waxy, lance-shaped, dark to metallic green above, with glossy vivid purple underneath, up to 30 cm and 7 cm wide, very attractive; flowers are small, white, nestled in purple boat shaped bracts; fruit capsules with 2 seeds.
Literacture
https: /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia_spathacea.
https: //florafaunaweb.nparks.gov.sg/special-pages/plant-detail.aspx?id=2524.
http: //www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/tradescantia-wild-food.
http: //www.qjure.com/remedy/commelinaceae.