My garden is starting to look like the Amazon. The Zinnia plants are nearly a foot high and the buds are starting to appear. I figure a week or so, and I’ll be taking photos of flowers, including some White Zinnias.
5
July
My Garden Today
by Jon Katz
Such beautiful blooms! Thank you so much for sharing!
That is definitely a Streptocarpus Jon:-
A popular house plant, Streptocarpus, (“twisted fruit” from Greek στρεπτός (streptos) “twisted” and καρπός (carpos) “fruit”)[2] is an Afrotropical genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae (the gesneriads). The genus is native to Afromontane biotopes[3] from central, eastern and southern Africa, including Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.[4] The flowers are five-petalled, salverform[5] tubes, almost orchid-like in appearance, and hover or arch over the plant, while the pointed, elongate fruit is of a helical form similar to that of the “tusk” of a narwhal. In the wild, species can be found growing on shaded rocky hillsides or cliffs, on the ground, in rock crevices, and almost anywhere the seed can germinate and grow. For the home, there are now many hybrids of various colours and forms available.
Although generally referred to simply as “Streptocarpus”, or “Streps”, the common name for subgenus Streptocarpus is Cape primrose, referring to the nativity of several species to South Africa and their superficial resemblance to the unrelated genus Primula. The common name for subgenus Streptocarpella is nodding violet. Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia (“African violet”) is a separate section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella.[6]
Wow, that is impressive, thanks..