| Scientific Name: | Tradescantia spathacea |
| Common Name: | Moses-in-the-cradle, boat lily |
| Family Name: | Commelinaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Indoor plant |
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| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Mar |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves spirally arranged, linear-lanceolate, dark green with purple undersides, up to 30cm long; florets white in comes with purplish, boat-shaped bracts ("Moses-in-a-basket"). | |