Description
Homegrown and cared for by our TCMGA Demonstration Garden Greenhouse Master Gardener volunteers.
Picture and description may vary from plants purchased. Some plants donated from Master Gardeners may have unknown variety and/or color of plant
Common Name: Basket Plant, False Bromeliad, Octopus Plant, Inch Plant
Type: Perennial
Family: Commelinaceae
Zone: 9 to 11
Height: 0.50 to 1.00 feet
Spread: 1.00 to 3.00 feet
Bloom Time: May to July
Bloom Description: Quick withering with their blossoms lasting one day, fragrant, clusters of white flowers on a long white tendril
Sun: Part Sun
Water: Medium, well-drained soil
Maintenance: Low
Flower: Sweet fragrance, several individual flowers forming a head closely subtended by scale-like bracts, often partly enclosing the clusters of flowers
Leaf: Green leaves extend on runner-like stems. Those stems can reach up to 35 inches in length: may turn purplish if exposed to lots of light
Attracts: Hummingbirds, Butterflies
