Tradescantia spathaceae ‘Tricolor’

Back in the mid 1980’s when I was working as a park employee for the City of Tulsa, we used a plant called Moses-in-the-Boat in some of the park plantings. That plant was related to Tricolor Oyster Plant but didn’t have anywhere near the intense color. The brilliantly-hued and dagger-shaped leaves of this tropical allow gardeners to create amazingly colorful and unique plant combinations. A couple of reasons are due to its short stature and spiky form. There’s just not much else that looks like it. Tricolor Oyster plant’s leaves are fleshy thick and striped with white, pink and green and have pinkish-purple undersides. Sometimes listed in the genus Tradescantia, it is also known as Variegated Boat Lily and Moses-in-the-Cradle.