Sinningia


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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sinningia

 

a genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs of the family Gesneriaceae. The plants have well-developed tubers and downy leaves. The flowers are usually large and pentamer-ous, and they have a bright bell-shaped corolla. There are approximately 15 species, distributed in South America. The gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) and several other species have been used to create many varieties with a multicolored double corolla. Hybrids are raised in greenhouses and as houseplants; they flower in April and May and are easily propagated by seeds, tubers, or leaf cuttings.

REFERENCES

Karchevskii, N. N. Dekorativnye oranzhereinye kul’tury. Moscow, 1959.
Schulz, P. Gloxinias, and How to Grow Them. New York, 1953. [23–1249–]
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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