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Normally, I hate it when one of my sinningia-tribe plants dies. I made an exception for Paliavana prasinata.
I had a P. prasinata plant for many years and it never bloomed. It took up a lot of space, and required a lot of water even though it was in a big pot. It would usually drop all its leaves every winter. Finally, one winter, it expired altogether.
I don't miss it.
The greenish flowers that I never got to see are supposedly pollinated by bats, or would have been if there had been the right kind of bats around here.
If you have to grow one Paliavana, choose P. tenuiflora.
| Plant Description |
|
| Growth | Indeterminate |
| Habit | Erect stem with few branches |
| Leaves | Green |
| Dormancy | Leaves deciduous in cold weather |
Flowering |
|
| Flowering season | None |
| Flower | campanulate |
Horticultural aspects |
|
| Hardiness | It survived 32F (0C) in my yard. For a while. |
| Recommended? | No. Mine never bloomed. |
Botany |
|
| Taxonomic group | In the paliavana subgroup of the Sinningia clade. |
| Pollinator | Bats |
For some habitat pictures and information, see the page on Mauro Peixoto's web site.
Latin prasinata, from prasina ("green"). For you fans of classical history, factio prasina ("the Greens") was one of the two horse-racing factions in the Roman and Byzantine Empires.