Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #25, 1 by vossner

vossner wrote:
this is a nana I got from Brian's Botanicals. He calls it Thialand black, but I think it is supposed to be Thailand black. Anywho, look at the nice black trunk. To the left of it is a nana with a red trunk, which has been called zebrina, sumatrana, plain red, so I don't know what I have, except the trunk is definitely red and the leaves are red/green variegated, with a red underside. The young one (nana on the left) doesn't show coloring yet, but as it matures it becomes quite colorful. Planted in another part of my garden I have a grove of these zebrinas, sumatranas, whatever they're called, and the effect is dramatic.