Can you identify this plant (picture included)?

Maybe a ti plant?

It honestly looks like a purple tulip on sterroids.

@MyNewtBoobs I really think that might be it, which is great because according to this article they’re pretty easy to keep alive. Thanks!!

@MyNewtBoobs has it right. It looks like a Hawaiian ti plant.

Thanks for confirmation, Jake! So, do you think it will survive in a little pot in a college dorm room in Massachusetts? If the article I linked above is accurate, I think it’ll be fine, except I’m not sure if there’s fluoride in the tap water there.

It should be fine, but I’m not an expert.

Let the water you use to water your plant sit uncovered for a few days. The oxygen will work out of it before you use it. Sometimes people go to water their plant, and the water coming out of the faucet is much colder than the plants’ roots are. Water left to sit like this will be room temperature, the same as the plant.

Red emerald??

It looks like a Cordyline to me. link

Here is some info about them. link

Hawaiian Ti Plant. I used to have one as a kid. I sent for it by mail, after seeing it advertised in a comic book. It’s supposed to bring you luck. You can buy them by the stems. That’s how I got mine. They sent a piece of the plant, the cane stem, and you just stick it in the moist soil or water, and it leafs out. It’s quite easy to grow.

I should mention that a Hawaiian Ti Plant is a Cordyline. Link

@Mariah Do you know how much sunlight you get in the dorm? I have a basement apartment, so I get very little sunlight, and almost all of it is right by the windows, so I’d love to find a plant other than bamboo that doesn’t really need more than a bit of sunlight.

@MyNewtBoobs It’ll depend which building I get placed in, but my room last fall had a huge window and got quite a bit of sun.

@Mariah Well, then lucky you!