Scientific Name: Gibasis geniculata
Common Name: Tahitian bridal veil
Family Name: Commelinaceae
Origin: Caribbean Island, South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Pendulous
Form: Mounded, Weeping
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure: Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White
Fruit: Capsule, Brown
Key ID Features:
Stems trailing with jointed appearance; leaves ovate, appearing sessile due to sheathing petioles; flowers about 5mm wide with white petals and hairy anther filaments.