Sinningia aggregata

Feature table for Sinningia aggregata

Plant Description

Growth Indeterminate
Habit Stems upright or sprawling
Leaves Green, hairy, often sticky
Dormancy Stems fully deciduous

Flowering

Inflorescence Axillary cyme
Season Blooms in summer
Flower Red, tubular.  There is also a yellow-flowered variety.

Horticultural aspects

Hardiness I have no data yet

Botany

Taxonomic group The tall-or-sticky group of the Corytholoma clade.




External Links

See a picture on Ron Myhr's Gesneriad Reference Web.  There is also a picture of the yellow-flowered form.  And Ron recommends this picture.

Publication

Sinningia aggregata was first published (as Gesneria aggregata) in 1818 by John Bellenden Ker-Gawler (1764-1842).  It was later a Corytholoma (1848) and a Rechsteineria (1891).  Hans Wiehler transferred it to Sinningia in 1975.

Etymology: Latin aggregata ("assembled"), from greg- (nom. sing. grex), "crowd".