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Chiritas produce thick leaves in a flat rosette, and bear trumpet-like blooms above on upright stems. Culture is same as for violets, but they can be more tolerant of neglect. Shown at left:
Chirita linearifolia Price: $5.00 each unless noted otherwise
Special Offer:
3 different Chiritas,
seller's choice $12*
Betty. Very striking, beautiful, silver foliage banded in green. Lavender blooms. Easy grower and likely the prettiest colored foliage of all. $5.00 Out of stock. Diane Marie. The prettiest of them all. Medium violet-purple blooms over exquisite, heavily notched leaves mottled silver. Compact. $5.00 Kazu. An excellent hybrid that's very underappreciated. Lots and lots of medium lavender-purple blooms w/cream throat. Thin, hairy, quilted leaves. A very easy grower and bloomer, and a bit different, too. $5.00 Kitaguni. Lots of bright yellow blooms above quilted, pointed, glossy foliage. Easy grower and bloomer. $5.00 Very limited supply. linearifolia. One of our very favorites. It makes a spectacular, yet elegant, plant when mature. "Umbrellas" of long, thin, leaves are produces about the larger, main plant. $8.00 Little Dragon. Perhaps our favorite. A wonderful little plant with thick, deep green, pointed foliage that grows in a perfect rosette of about 6" in diameter. Adorable little blooms of very pale lavender produced easily. When mature, will produce stolons, at ends of which are borne another plant! A newer, still scarce, hybrid. $6.00 Out of stock until late May. longangensis. Tubular, light lavender blooms with darker veining and yellow stripe on upper throat. Very narrow, pointed leaves. Smaller grower and dependable bloomer. $5.00
Silver Surfer. Lavender-blue blooms over pointed, green leaves veined in silver. Compact grower, great bloomer. Very easy grower, it's recommended. $5.00 Very limited supply.
tamiana. This adorable little species will soon be grown by everyone who grows houseplants. Only recently in cultivation, it's perhaps the easiest to grow and bloom gesneriad one could have. An absolute must-have! Tiny, white blooms are striped purple in throat. Very small, miniature grower and very free bloomer. $5.00 Out of stock until late May. sp. 'Viet Nam'. (usbrg #98-083) Another species very new to cultivation, this is another of our very favorites. Long, narrow, pointed leaves have soft, velvet-like texture. Foliage forms a perfect rosette and produces lots of graceful stolons, at the end of which appear more plants! Round, pansy blooms are produced only one to a stem, but are a lovely shade of deep medium lavender-blue and have a clear, yellow throat. $5.00 Vertigo. Lovely dark green, glossy leaves with light green marbling that form a nice, flat rosette. White-backed blooms are large, light lavender blue with some yellow on white throats. Good bloomer. New! $8.00 Out of stock until late May. "COLLECTOR'S TREASURE" These are varieties from other hybridizers or "discontinued" varieties that no longer appear in our catalog (some are favorites of ours that just never seemed to sell very well but we still insist on growing). Availability of these varieties is always uncertain, so list substitutes--we won't delay orders awaiting their availability. hotei. Bright yellow blooms produced easily above narrow, medium green, foliage. Compact grower. $5.00 latifolia dwarf. Very symmetrical, moderate-sized grower with thick, quilted, leaves and plenty of light blue blooms with yellow throat. Very easy grower and free bloomer. $5.00 Price: $5.00 each unless noted otherwise
Special Offer:
3 different chiritas,
seller's choice $12* |
A
genus of about 150 species, these
gesneriads are relatively new to hobbyists, most in cultivation
for less than 20 years. Because of their forgiving temperament, growth habit, and blooming,
they have very quickly become very popular among hobbyists world-wide.
Almost every collector of African violets now grows at least one.
