So sorry to hear! That does look like the same thing. These plants one can only get via trade are so interesting, a mystery why they don't sell them in stores. Grows so fast! Happy to share if I'm blessed with excess!

Is that a jewel orchid (Ludisia) right above it? What's the current news on it?

I don't think I've ever heard of this plant nor have I seen pictures.

I like the looks

of it.

Reminds me of a marginal plant for some reason.

I cannot wait to grow this plant again! The jewel orchid from the picture has died. But however I have a pathetic looking pot cuttings from it that definitely need a trim!

Grantgarden2

Certainly has that classic tradescantia look to it,doesn't it?

Could this possibly be a green form of this plant? I found a small pot of them and I took a few cuttings. This is one of the cuttings that has done the best.

A Tradescantid, I've had this in the past.

Grant, are the leaves thicker & waxy feeling? If so, probably a Callisia.

My Tripogandra is growing so fast, I've taken cuttings a couple times already.

A pic from this morning of one of the cuttings of Tripogandra.

Nice colours!

This stuff grows FAST! I don't think the pics show it well, but it's very upright stuff, pieces get well over a foot tall before they get heavy enough to lean.

Since my last post, I've been trimming pieces off of these things often. Here's a stem I took a cutting of last weekend. By yesterday, its' new shoots already look like this. I don't think I've ever had a plant that grew faster than this.

I'm SO excited, found some buds on some of this just now!

Yay!! Please keep us updated on the blooms!

Grantgarden2

Good job!

Bud progress:

About 2" taller, buds still forming...

Confirmed, this plant is Tripogandra serrulata. Since June, I've spread this plant to several places in the ground, and into about 8 pots.

With Tradescantia zebrina and Callisia.

This plant stands straight up until a stem gets pretty tall. (With Callisia repens.)

Dramatic aerial roots on potted individual.

Happy to be back outside,

Found the first buds of the season today.

They are on the really long stem coming out of this pot with birdnest fern, Coleus, WJ.

Like its' Callisia cousins, it's not easy to catch the blooms open on this plant.

'Tis the season for blooms again.

This plant grows SOOO fast!

I purchased Tripogandra 'Purple Scimitars' years ago, and I have not seen it produce flowers. It has been grown indoors in a hanging basket and consistently droops before growing upright. Perhaps your plant is T. purperascens?

Hi, Yale! This plant was traded to me as a hanging, dangling plant too, by someone who said it did not bloom. There are no members of Commelinaceae family that do not bloom.

When I bring pieces of this plant inside for winter, the growth is more like what you describe. Unless/until you've put some in the ground for at least half of the year while warm enough outside, your plant would be unlikely to be able to exhibit its' true nature. At least several hours of direct sun seems to be needed to get blooms. Patches in more shade are not showing buds. Once inside, I've not seen blooming continue. In a pot, it definitely wasn't growing this quickly either. Some of these stems are over 10 feet long, the growth since late March, but only the newest 10-15" of each stem is upright.

This has been my experience with all of the members of the Commelinaceae family that I've kept both in pots and in the ground, and so many other kinds of unrelated plants. Ground growth is totally different. There is no way to become 100% intimate with any plant from only cultivating in a pot. Since I have to bring most of these plants inside for winter, I don't have that opportunity either.

These sad looking pieces are "lucky." I took cuttings when frost threatened this past fall and forgot about them for 2 months, the leaves were shriveled & the vines were starting to go limp too. I put them in water and they took root and started growing new foliage. They were in a south window all winter. They were put in this pot last weekend in a spot where the sun hits it most of the day. I'm curious how tall they can get before they finally lean over.