Can anyone identify this plant?

Rheabop, member

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I have been calling this plant my "whatever you call it plant" for over 4 years.  I would really like to know what it is so I can call it by its correct name :-)  I originally obtained a couple of plants from someone in Tampa, FL who had them growing in the ground, but since I lived in an apt. I had to relegate them to planters on my balcony.  The two plants grew like crazy - having to be repotted several times, and requiring the new sprouts to be planted in their own pots where they turned into full grown plants within a few weeks.  I started giving them away.  I recently moved to TX, but brought one small plant with me and it is surviving quite well in a planter, although it has also been repotted a few times over the past few  months.  It has now produced several new shoots that will soon need to have their own pots. All that is required for the new shoots to grow is to snip them off from the mother plant and place the end into the soil.  As long as the soil is kept fairly moist they start to grown their own roots almost immediately.

 Please, does anyone know what this is??

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Comarish59 writes: Usually, if these get more sun they turn more purple. My grandma called it Moses-In-A-Cradle, but the latin is either Callisia spp or Tradescantia spp. Posted: 2:52 am on December 1st

Rheabop writes: Thanks to all who posted on my question. So sorry to be so long in responding with a "thanks" - I have been away for several months and didn't have access to the site for a while. Thanks especially to tuxedo1 for the name "Callisia fragans - I looked that name up on some plant ID sites and that is EXACTLY what the plant is :-) I now have over 15 new plants from the original "1" I brought to TX and they are doing very well and growing like crazy!!
Posted: 9:49 am on October 19th

tuxedo1 writes: this plant is common to the south and the caribean.It is really a common ground cover and also a prolific house plant I have given literally hundreds of cuttings to friends It is refered to by the names----Callisia fragans--because it gets a long spike thin spike of fragrant flowers.It is also called tradescantia dracenoides Posted: 3:44 pm on July 5th

cgoodwin writes: Yes, I also think it is a Tradescantia - also known as wandering jew. Posted: 10:33 am on July 2nd

lovescreations writes: From what I can see this is a green Wandering Jew, the more common one is purple. I hope this helps! Posted: 7:42 pm on June 30th

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