Tradescantia Pale Puma Rhapidophyllum Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliage

Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliage is an excellent long lasting addition to flower arrangements

We have named it after the late John Lucas's Tradewinds Nursery

Grace McClure was one of the co-founders of Ohio's Columbus School for Girls

The new leaves emerge with a nice red border

It is a great foil and filler for those show stopping plants that are in full bloom for just a few weeks

Tradescantia Pale Puma Rhapidophyllum Cut flowers and foliage:Canna foliageWe got our first start of Tradescantia 'Pale Puma' as an unnamed selection from plantsman Scott Ogden, later to find out that it has been popular in the Florida Panhandle since the early 1990s. Tradescantia 'Pale Puma', which turns out to be a hybrid of Tradescantia pallida x sillamontana, makes a 1' tall x 3' wide mass of fleshy purple stems adorned with 2. 5" x 1. 5", alternately spaced, rubbery leaves. The leaves are glossy green in the center but