Native Somalian Kitten Ears remembers her dry and dusty, sandy and rocky ancestral deserty home and will be so happy in the brightest, warmest, dryest desert in your home with just a whisper of water now and then. An easier plant is hard to find. A hardy relative of Wandering Jews, it happily fills the pot with fleshy stems stacked with small, succulenty, lance shaped and pointy leaves. Each leaf comes in pale green to emerald green and has a soft fold down the middle at the midvein. Add to that the reason she's called a kitty; soft, white kitten fur edges every leaf and the stems too. As a Tradescantia, you know it'll trail, and when the pot gets all full up off it'll go over the edge up to 2' or so. When everything's right with the world, you can expect a bunch of pretty, simple, three-petaled, violety pink flowers to decorate all the tips. Pinch to prune and stick all the pieces in water-they root super fast.
- Air Purifying
- Trailing
Quick Care Guide:
- Water - Medium (3): Water plant when dry. Plant does not like soil to always be moist, but doesn't like to stay dry once becomes dry. Water as soon as soil is dry.
- Light - Low/Med (2): These plants need some diffused light to stay happy. Prefers if there is a window in the room, but doesn't need to be very light nor close to it.
- Difficulty - Med (3): Not too difficult to keep happy, but does require some attention.