| Scientific Name: | Impatiens hawkeri |
| Common Name: | New Guinea impatiens |
| Family Name: | Balsaminaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Filler, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant, Small garden/space, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Succulent, Lanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Red, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves are solid dark-green, lanceolate with acuminate to acute tips and distinct hair glands that extend along serrate margins, most mature leaves 10-17cm long; flowers single, <8cm long, spurred in colors of red, crimson, pink, purple, or white. Hybrids: Leaves tricolor with red midrib, yellow arrow-like centre, and the rest dark-green. | |