What a marvelous group Gesneriads are!

These photographs have been borrowed from the Gesneriad Reference Web
with the kind permission of the photographer, Ron Myhr, of Ontario, Canada.

This Columnea hybrid, Early Bird, is a great bloomer under lights!

Columnea
'Early Bird'

This plant has wonderful leaves, with rather inconspicuous flowers

Nautilocalyx
pemphidius

 A glass container keeps this one's leaves nicely humid

Episcia
'Cleopatra'

 A pretty plant, but rather leggy

Kohleria
'Princess'
These hanging slipper flowers are very typical of many kinds of Gesneriads

Sinningia
conspicua

 The red on the underside of the leaves adds to the show!

Nematanthus
'Stop Light'

 This is a wild variety of the African Violet

Saintpaulia
velutina

 In the same group as the florist gloxinia, this one also grows from a bulb

Sinningia
leucotricha

Sinningia
"Bright Eyes"

 A wonderful, showy plant, the leaves grow in a special way

Streptocarpus
'Essue'

 I have a weakness for varigated leaves, but they are a challenge to grow well

Saintpaulia
'Picasso'

 So many gesneriads are right out of the jungles

Paradrymonia
hypocyrta

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