| Scientific Name: | Streptocarpus saxorum |
| Common Name: | bavarian belles, false African violet, cape primrose |
| Family Name: | Gesneriaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - tropical |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Mounds 5-8cm high, semi-shrubby; stems slender, hairy; leaves small, softly hairy, fleshy, elliptic to ovate leaves that occur in whorls of three; flowers arising from the upper leaf axils, single or paired, bilabiate (three lower petal lobes are larger than the upper two), about 2cm wide with a with a corolla tube up to 3cm long. | |