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  Northern Valley Violets :: Types of African Violets

Types of African Violets
 
A display of flowering African Violets is a joy to behold, and often inspires one to buy a leaf or small plant of a variety which particularly appeals. It is useful to know how to describe a flower without a picture or an example to refer to, and helps one to understand the descriptions in a commercial grower’s catalogue. I hope that the following definitions of the more important varieties of flower forms. Shapes and colour will assist giving and accurate word picture. Lost of the flowers will need several of the definitions to describe them fully and can be somewhat confusing. But do have a go!
 
1. Bell
Single blossom with four to six petals fused more that half way from the base to form a bell shape.
2. Single Blossoms are classic ‘ Violet” type, having five lobes. With the two upper lobes smaller than the three lower ones. Each blossom has only one pair of stamens.
3. Star Blossoms have five pointed lobes or petals of about equal size and distance from one another, and with five stamens. The blossoms an be single, semi-double or double, but will always maintain the star form.
4. Wasp Blossoms are single and each lobe is very narrow.
5. Semi-Double Blossom that have more than the standard five petals, but less than a complete second row of petals. They will often have a crest, of tuft at the centre, and may look like a single, but will always have multiple stamens.
6. Double Blossom with at least tow rows of petals.
7. Edged Lobes of the bloom are edged with a colour. When the petals are edged with white, the blossom is known as Geneva edged or a Geneva. Blossomed may be any shape and single, semi-double or double.
8. Fringed Blossoms have heavily serrated, frilled or fringed outer petals. The blossoms can be any form or shape.
9. Two-Tone Blossoms have two or more shades of on colour.
10. Bi-Colour/ Multi-colour Blossoms with tow or more Different colors.
11. Fantasy Blossoms are spattered, streaked or rayed with contrasting colors or deeper shades of the same or a different color. The flower may be of any shape or kind.
12. Chimera Blossoms with stripes which radiate from the centre of the petals.Also known as pinwheels.
 
Colours of African Violets
 
  • Red
  • Pink
  • Blue
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Mauve
  • Lavender
  • Purple
  • Cranberry Green
 
 
 
 

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