| Scientific Name: | Sinningia speciosa |
| Common Name: | florest's gloxinia |
| Family Name: | Gesneriaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
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| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblong, Ovate, Ciliate, Crenate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, broadly ovate to elliptic, 10-20cm long x 2-12cm wide, margin crenate and slightly wavy, velvety pubescence, begin die back after flowering (plant goes dormant); flowers trumpet-shaped, velvety, 8-10cm wide. | |