| Scientific Name: | Saintpaulia ionantha |
| Common Name: | African violet |
| Family Name: | Gesneriaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - tropical |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ciliate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green, Blue, Violet, Pink, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, ovate, most blades 7-9cm long x 4-7cm wide, margin crenate, base cordate, fuzzy, fleshy, range in colour from mid-green to purple (especially the lower surfaces), petioles 4-7cm long; flowers 2-3cm wide, bilaterally symmetrical, on several separate cymes, most cvs. blue, purple, or pink. | |