Callisia fragrans

Rapidly growing perennial herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers, used as a hanging plant in pots or as a ground cover, outdoors in mild climates.

The scented callisia is a very easy to care for plant, magnificent in a pot, even for small spaces and dimly lit apartments. In the open ground it forms very dense carpets. Magnificent in pots where it forms aerial roots and offspring at the end of the stolons, which therefore remain hanging and hanging from the mother plant.

Classification
Common name: Callisia fragrant, golden tendril, false bromeliad
Genus and species: Callisia fragrans, Tradescantia dracenoides.
Cultivars: -
Family: Commelinaceae.

Characteristics
Description of flowers: Small, panicles.
Flower color: White.
Flowering period: Spring.
Leaves: Waxy, alternate sheathing the stem, forming succulent rosettes; violaceous on the lower page and on the margins of the upper page.
Fragrance: Very fragrant flowers.
Dimensions: The plant reaches a height of 30 cm; The plant spreads with its stolons, covering the ground in an indefinite way, growing according to the space and land it has available. The flowers also reach a height of one meter.

Cultivation
Exposure: Sun, partial shade, shade (it grows equally well in shade and partial shade, but does not flower)
Soil: Well drained.
Irrigation: As needed, without excesses or stagnation.
Frost resistance: USDA 10b

Care
Propagation: Very easy, just separate the new plants born on the new stolons.

Notes of interest
Herbal properties: Callisia fragrans contains active biological substances (vegetable steroids) that can fight against infections, stimulate metabolic processes, strengthen the immune system and circulatory system. Substances belonging to the group of steroids present in Callisia fragrans give these wonderful possibilities. The whole plant possesses such healing compounds, the juice is the same throughout the plant, even if the concentration in the stem is higher.