What's New

Week of July 14, 2008

• A closeup of the nectaries of Sinningia barbata. I know: just what you always wanted.

Week of July 7, 2008

• A page for Sinningia speciosa 'Carangola', based on Bill Price's plant at the Denver convention
• A separate page for Sinningia speciosa 'Domingos Martins'

Week of June 23, 2008

• New page on hybrids within the Dircaea clade, the group that includes S. eumorpha, S. leucotricha, S. cardinalis, and other well-known species.  The page attempts to show all known primary hybrids (species x species) plus some secondary hybrids.
• A picture of Sinningia macrophylla, from Karyn Cichocki.

Week of June 9, 2008

• Revision of the Sinningiae taxonomy page, in the light of more recent papers by Perret et al.  Some of the links to this page from the feature table of individual species pages have been modified in the light of the taxonomy revisions.  Details on the tuber-evolution page also had to be changed, although the conclusions remain the same.

Week of June 2, 2008

• Revision of the S. defoliata page

Week of May 26, 2008

• Pictures and a table showing the differences between Sinningia sp. "Waechteri" and Sinningia "Desafinado".
• Discussion of whether S. defoliata has a stem, and if so, what its nature is, with two pictures
• A new picture of Sinningia insularis

Week of April 21, 2008

• New page for the Martens/Harris collaboration Sinningia 'Ozark Scentimental Journey'
• New page for Jon Lindstrom's hybrids Sinningia piresiana x leucotricha, and S. insularis x piresiana.
• Picture of a pair-flowered cyme in the non-Gesneriad Penstemon tenuis.

Week of April 14, 2008

• Another picture of Sinningia 'Serenade'

Week of April 7, 2008

• A new picture of Ruth Coulson's hybrid Sinningia 'Serenade', showing the striking variability in the flowers.

Week of February 4, 2008

• David Harris's Sinningia concinna

Week of January 26, 2008

• A new page on Sinningia sp. "Florianopolis"

Week of November 26, 2007

• Two pictures of Sinningia barbata flowers

Week of November 12, 2007

The main thing that visitors will notice is that the frames have gone away.  I liked the handy species list in the left quarter of the window.  Unfortunately, frames make a site unfriendly to search engines, and make it harder to reference individual pages on the site from external links or emails.  The frames created maintenance issues too, so with great regret, I decided to eliminate them.

The species list is still there, but it takes a click to get to it.  Also, hybrids have been separated into their own list, and a lot more entries have been added to it.

The links are in the boxes at the top of the page.

• Two pictures of Sinningia speciosa "Domingos Martins"
• Another picture of Sinningia defoliata (there are now nine pictures on the S. defoliata page)
• Picture of Sinningia barbata flowerbuds
• Picture of Sinningia araneosa tuber with sprouts

Week of September 24, 2007

• Picture of Peter Shalit's Sinningia defoliata
• Picture of Sinningia araneosa plant
• Sinningia nordestina x araneosa
• Mildew (ugh!) on sinningia leaves

Week of September 10, 2007

• Peter Shalit's cross of S. guttata and S. lindleyi
• Pictures of S. sulcata, from Miriam Denham
• Leaf hair picture, from Miriam Denham
• Picture of S. defoliata seedling, showing that young plants of this species have normal sinningia leaves
• Picture of S. 'Peninsula Belle' x reitzii
• A page on S. 'Distant Lights' (S. leopoldii x "Black Hill"), including a deeply cratered but living tuber
• Picture of S. barbata, but just a small plant, not in bloom
• Picture of the terrain where S. nivalis grows in Brazil
• Picture of S. sp. "Globulosa" tuber, showing color resemblance to that of S. hatschbachii
• Picture of S. amambayensis fruit, showing the unusual position relative to the leaves

Week of June 25, 2007

• New pictures for
  • Sinningia 'Peninsula Belle' x piresiana
  • Vanhouttea hilariana (but no flowers yet)

Week of June 18, 2007

• Pictures of Jon Dixon's leucotrichas, including the hairy-flowered "Max Dekking" form
• A new page on Sinningia hatschbachii x glazioviana
• A new page on Sinningia leucotricha x cardinalis
• A new page on Sinningia macrostachya x leucotricha
• A new page on Sinningia schomburgkiana (not that I know very much about it)
• More cold-survival information, and a chronology, plus the Sinningia Morgue!
• More tuber theories! (probably wrong!)
• New pictures for
  • Sinningia defoliata
  • Sinningia lineata
  • Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao' x sp. "Ibitioca"

Week of May 28, 2007

• Pictures of Sinningia sulcata! Jon Dixon has it and it blooms!
• A new page on Sinningia 'Peninsula Belle' x piresiana
• A new page on Bill Price's hybrid Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao' x sp. "Ibitioca"
• New pictures for
  • Sinningia douglasii
  • Sinningia cochlearis
  • Sinningia allagophylla (but no flowers yet)

Week of May 14, 2007

• For most species, a "Recommended?" entry in the attributes table, to show whether I advise somebody to grow this species.  It may surprise the reader to discover that I do not recommend all sinningia species to the gardener.
• A new page on Sinningia 'Serenade'
• A new page on Sinningia douglasii x leucotricha
• New pictures for
  • Sinningia araneosa
  • Sinningia defoliata
  • Sinningia guttatta

Week of May 7, 2007

• New picture at top of Desafinado page.

Week of April 30, 2007

• Revamped comparison page between S. aghensis and S. sp. "Ibitioca", with pictures showing the flowers of each side by side.

Week of April 23, 2007

• Numbers on how long it took me to get bloom on a plant started from seed (see individual entries).
• A picture of Vanhouttea brueggeri seedlings, one with whorled leaves.
• A picture of Vanhouttea brueggeri in habitat, from Alain Chautems.

Week of April 2, 2007

• More data on cold tolerance
• Sinningia guttata in early spring: indoors vs. outdoors
• Sinningia sp. "gertiana" after the freeze

Week of March 26, 2007

• Essay: Why is so hard to define what a species is?
• New hardiness information on S. sp. "Ibitioca"

Week of March 12, 2007

• Comparison of two plants of S. arenicola, one in darkness, the other in light.
• More data on cold tolerance
• New picture of sinningia flower structure

Week of January 12, 2007

• The effects of a good Mediterranean-climate freeze on gesneriads

Week of December 8, 2006

• New picture of Sinningia calcaria fruits, from Karyn Cichocki (see thumbnail to the right).
• New picture of Sinningia sp. "Globulosa" fruits, from Karyn Cichocki
• Discussion of Rechsteineria

Week of November 24, 2006

• New page for Sinningia sp. "Esmeril"
• New picture of Vanhouttea lanata flower

Week of November 3, 2006

• New picture of and information on Sinningia richii

Week of October 23, 2006

• New picture of Sinningia nordestina

Week of October 16, 2006

• New pictures of Sinningia gertiana

Week of October 9, 2006

• Pictures of Sinningia richii
• Pictures of S. 'Texas Zebra' x 'Peninsula Belle' flowers
• Another picture of Sinningia calcaria

Week of September 9, 2006

• More discussion of resupination
• Pictures of S. tuberosa

Week of August 19, 2006

• More comparison flower pictures

Week of August 12, 2006

Hybridizing

• Hybridizing technique
• Crossing diagram from Mines and Clayberg
  
  

Week of July 17, 2006

Week of July 10, 2006