Tradescantia zebrina ‘Little Hill’ is a cultivar of Tradescantia zebrina Bosse which is native to Mexico. It is a very popular trailing plant. Where not winter hardy, it is commonly grown in hanging baskets or pots as a houseplant. Trailing stems cascade down from a hanging basket.
Leaves are slightly asymmetrical pointed ovals, and each half of the leaf has a stripe running its length.
On newly-matured leaves, the base colour of the upper surface is dark greyish green in moderate lighting, darkening to greyish purple; in intense light. The stripes are greenish grey or light grey with a metallic sheen. In intense light the stripes become streaked or completely covered with dark purplish grey; or dark purple.
As the leaves age, the base colour lightens to moderate olive green, and any purple on the stripes fades slightly.;
Genus name honors John Tradescant (1570-1638) and his son John Tradescant (1608-1662), botanists and successive gardeners to Charles I of England.
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Specific epithet means zebra-striped.
Tradescantia zebrina ‘Little Hill’
Tradescantia zebrina ‘Little Hill’ is ca. 35 cm long and comes in a ⌀17 cm pot
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