Triffid

The triffid, aka aloe, noticed at the end of reference 1 was, in the event culled, aka repotted. But it has to some extent been replaced by one of the plants on the kitchen window sill which seems to be doing really well.

I believe one of the tradescantias, which I learn from reference 2 are often grown as flowering plants, although I do not remember any flowers in the ones that we have grown over the years. My present vote is for Tradescantia sillamontana of reference 3, although I am confused by the image offered there. Aka the white tradescantia.

Presumably one of the various plants and groups of plants named for the Tradescants of reference 4, this being a former church just outside Lambeth Palace which we have not visited for a long time. I also recall, also quite a long time ago, visiting the splendid botanical gardens at Puerto de la Cruz in the Canaries, where they used the stuff to fill the borders underneath trees. So a plant which likes it warm, wet and shady. A place which does not seem to run to its own website, as it would here in the UK, but there is plenty of it out there, including references 7 and 8.

Next stop Google Images, which offers references 5 and 6. It also points to Tradescantia fluminensis, despite the talk of purple, absent in the snap above. There is also talk of hairs, present but not strong  in the snap above. I deduce that both Tradescantia fluminensis and Tradescantia sillamontana are probably wrong. And that the taxonomy of this genus is all a bit of a mess, so who knows?

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/05/trolley-824.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia_sillamontana.

Reference 4: https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/the-museum/history/tradescants/.

Reference 5: https://shop.tradescantia.uk/product/tradescantia-continental-group-tenderness/.

Reference 6: https://tradescantia.uk/.

Reference 7: https://www.laorotava.es/turismo/en/11-botanical-garden-extension%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC/.

Reference 8: https://puertodelacruz.info/jardin-botanico/.