Family: Gesneriaceae
Common Name: Smithiantha
Description | These plants have beautiful foliage and flowers. They need warm humid conditions to grow properly. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
Sunlight | bright to moderate, good under flourescent lights |
Moisture | evenly moist, humid |
Growing Media | average house |
Temperature | warm |
Flowers | spires of nodding inflated bell-like flowers |
Leaves | One of the neat characteristics of this plant is its velvet textured foliage. |
Stems | rhizomatous |
Roots | fibrous |
Propagation | leaf cuttings, rhizomes and seeds |
Native Site | moist, tropical woodland and rocks in Mexico |
Notes & Reference | #02-Exotic Plant Manual (Alfred Byrd Graf) |
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