NOUN
- tropical African plant cultivated as a houseplant for its violet or white or pink flowers
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- Gloxinias, known botanically as Sinningia speciosa, are members of the gesneriad family, as are African violets, episcias, achimenes, and many other popular houseplants. RNews - TOP STORIES
- If cut flowers strike you as too ephemeral, perhaps you'd prefer giving a houseplant such as amaryllis, cyclamen, African violet, paper-white narcissus, orchid, Boston fern, florist hydrangea, hibiscus, crown of thorns Euphorbia milii or spider plant. Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers
- Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, African violets, primroses, pansies and violets, geraniums, gloxinias, cyclamens, coleus, kalonchoes, peperomias, and heartleaf philodendrons.
- Saintpaulia, commonly known as African violet, is a genus of 6 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa, with a concentration of species in the Nguru mountains of Tanzania.
- The catalogue also lists many different colours of African violets. The Sun
- Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, African violets, primroses, pansies and violets, geraniums, gloxinias, cyclamens, coleus, kalonchoes, peperomias, and heartleaf philodendrons.
- I did get a small African violet and a yellow blooming kalanchoe, each for $2.50, though! Blooms? In January? « Fairegarden
- I am finding citrus every bit as addictive as the African violets and streptocarpuses.
- And, along with African violets and streptocarpuses I have chiritas, an espicia, an alsobia, sinningias and columneas.
- As the plants sprout new leaves, remove them from the aquarium and pot them up in a potting soil recommended for African violets.