Sinningia concinna

1. Feature table
2. External links
3. Publication and etymology

I have never grown this plant.  It is supposed to be a difficult plant to keep alive, requiring terrarium conditions.

Jeanne Sorci's plant

The very nice plant in the picture was grown by Jeanne Sorci, of the Peninsula Gesneriad Society.  She grows it in an enclosed bubble (the top was removed for the photo).  The flower is small but striking.  As can be seen, Jeanne grows it in moss.

David Harris's plant

This is the prize-winning plant grown by the renowned small-sinningia hybridizer David Harris (of "Misery").  It is a tribute to his accomplishment that everybody was so impressed that he had a plant with six open flowers (there are two in back of the one on the right).  This species is not for the faint of heart or the easily discouraged!

Hybridization

Several hybrids have been made using S. concinna to get miniatures.  It was crossed with S. pusilla and S. hirsuta, quite early.  Dave Zaitlin made a nice hybrid, S. "Deep Purple", by crossing S. concinna with S. sellovii.  Who else would have thought of doing that cross?!

Feature table for Sinningia concinna

External Links

See a picture on Ron Myhr's Gesneriad Reference Web.

Mauro Peixoto's web site also has a page on S. concinna.

Publication

Sinningia concinna was first published (as a Stenogastra) in 1861 by Hooker.  Nichols transferred it to Sinningia in 1887.

Etymology: Latin concinna ("symmetrical, elegant").