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
Exposure:
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblong, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, ovate to oblong, margins scalloped, velvety; flowers trumpet-shaped, up to 10cm wide.