Gloxinia charms with its beauty Europeans have more than two hundred years, she did not just take root and spread among fans of indoor floriculture, but, without exaggeration, conquered millions of hearts.
At the time of discovery and development of new lands, a biologist went with a team of navigators, he described unknown species of animals and plants.
Ship doctor Gloxin was a good biologist and successfully combined medical practice with research work. In America, he met an amazingly beautiful flowering plant, made his description and drawing, the plant received the name discoverer - gloxinia.
Selection
In nature, there are 25 species of gloxinia, but all the diverse magnificence was obtained from plants of two species - the beautiful and royal gloxinia. For a long time V. Sinning was engaged in the selection of a wonderful flower, he received a large number of beautiful hybrids, they decided to give his name to hydrangeas, but the name synngia did not stick. Breeding work on obtaining new hybrid varieties has not been interrupted and is being actively carried out at present, a large number of amateurs have joined the breeders, their hybrids are not inferior in beauty and diversity.
By size, hydrangeas are divided into stunted (up to 30 centimeters), medium-sized (about 30 centimeters) and tall (more than 30 centimeters; according to the flower type, the plant is divided into double-colored and plain-colored; according to the color features, they can be evenly colored, calico (petals have contrasting, one-dimensional specks) and tiger (the petals have speckles in the center and a brightly colored edge). It is easily pereopilyatsya and gives an incredible amount of the most varied, unpredictable in beauty and form varieties.
Most common
Gloxinia has a large number of varieties, such as:
- Josephine - non-terry variety with large gramophone of red and white flowers, the petals of which are slightly crimped at the edges. It blooms very abundantly, up to 20 buds can bloom on one plant.
- Madonna enchants with its purity of color, terry, large flowers are pure white - for gloxinia it is a rarity. The bush has the average size, a leaf of light green tone, the average size.
- Prince albert compact, with medium-sized leaves and very large flowers of a wide bell-shaped form with a deeply dissected edge, the flower has a light-colored, almost white center and a claret-purple corolla. The variety is distinguished not only by its unusual coloring for gloxinia, but also by its unpretentiousness. This is a variety of foreign selection.
- Sambilina it pleases the eye, improves mood, the large double flower is painted in pink and white tiger-like colors, pink specks and light colored petals of the petal edge look very elegant, the plant is of medium growth power, it is abundant flowering, the leaves are light green, not large.
- Fusion - a mixture of multicolored large-flowered hybrid gloxinia with a variety of appearance.
- Avanti just a charming, medium bush, and the flowers are large, wide bells with zonal coloring of various colors and shades, the leaves of medium size complement the bright bouquet.
- The empress - truly the empress, the plants of this variety have a large wide-bell-shaped flower with a wavy edge, the Empress tiger, for example, has a flower the color of vanilla with dark specks. The name Empress have gloxinia species with very large flowers, the second word in the name of the variety is responsible for the particular color of the flower. The Empress is wine-red with a large bell-shaped flower and a rich color, which determined the name of the flower.
- Brocade- just an amazing compact bush up to 15 centimeters in height, flowers are terry, large with various bright colors, the edge of petals is white.
- Yesenia - a very beautiful name became a name in vain, very large terry flowers of crimson color on medium-sized bushes look just amazing, the leaves are of medium size.
- Speckled refers to tall varieties, the plant grows to 60 centimeters, the lower part of the leaf has a reddish tint, petioles cover speckles, large flowers with a color from white to dark red, from lilac to purple.
- Royal undersized, its peduncles up to 25 centimeters long, flowers large, drooping, bright purple bells, velvety leaf, not large, dark green, abundant bloom.
- Beautiful It got its name not in vain, a bush up to 35 centimeters high is decorated with large bells, their color can be very different, from light pink to purple, but the charming calico type of color makes them simply irresistible.
- Tiny corresponds to its size, its velvety leaves are no larger than one centimeter, the height of the plant is up to 3 centimeters, and on each peduncle there is 1 tiny white-purple flower.
Popularly called "Gramophone" Because of the shape of the flower, for more than two centuries this wonderful plant brings joy to the house, making it more comfortable.
A photo
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