| Scientific Name: | Tradescantia zebrina |
| Common Name: | wandering Jew |
| Family Name: | Commelinaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Pendulous |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Oblong, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers paired, Blue, Purple, Pink, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves ovate, 6-9cm long, solid purple underneath, most cultivars with silvery longitudinal stripes above (or just green and purple). | |