Verdant jade and white jade adorned with plain flowers, plain and elegant white flowers bloom on the branches
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On the path, a person fair as jade, a gentleman unmatched in this world.
When I used to write about flowers, I always loved to compare them to beauties, having admired countless fair ladies, but when I saw Tradescantia fluminensis cv. Variegata, with its intermingling green and white, its elegant and refined bearing, I felt it was a graceful gentleman, gentle as jade. Previously I always wrote "she," today I call him "he."
Tradescantia fluminensis cv. Variegata of the genus Tradescantia in the family Commelinaceae, also known as variegated inch plant, is a variegated cultivar of Tradescantia fluminensis. Its stripes interweave green and white, as if Tradescantia zebrina of the same genus had changed its makeup and appearance, switched to a different color palette, and immediately become fresh and refined.
Tradescantia fluminensis cv. Variegata is a perennial evergreen herb, creeping in growth, blooming in spring, and atop its jade-like leaves, the small flowers are also plain and elegantly appropriate, with white petals lightly translucent, covered in fine dense hairs, delicate filaments, dotted with bright yellow anthers. Verdant jade and white jade adorned with plain flowers, what a cool and wonderful gentleman.
He likes light but cannot tolerate harsh sun, is shade-tolerant but too much shade will affect leaf color, likes a humid environment, and with appropriate moisture can be grown lush and vibrant. Cuttings taken from branches root extremely easily; a single stem inserted into the ground can, before you know it, grow into a small patch, comparable in ease of cultivation to Tradescantia zebrina.
The image above shows common Tradescantia fluminensis in its wild state, fond of shady and damp conditions, with strong vitality
To say this Tradescantia fluminensis cv. Variegata is unmatched in this world seems inaccurate, for there is another grass similar in temperament to him. Phalaris arundinacea var. picta of the genus Phalaris in the grass family Poaceae, also known as ribbon grass, is a perennial herb and a horticultural variety.
The two images above are ribbon grass
His leaves are slender and extremely soft, with a texture like silk ribbon, and the leaf color is likewise intermingled green and white, traced thread by thread, resembling a jade belt; both names are extremely fitting. Gently stroking the leaves, the jade belt like silk wraps softly around the fingers, with a distinctive charm.
He can be planted by lakesides and can also accent rock gardens, does well in sunlight and is fine in partial shade, propagates very easily by division, and is a quite easy-to-grow grass.
Ribbon grass
I wonder what other flowers and grasses could be called a gentleman, writing to the fullest this appearance of verdant jade and white jade.
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