Saintpaulia

Sanintpaulia also known as African violet is a low-growing evergreen perennial the grows indoor or in a warm greenhouse with temperature between 18-24 Celsius degrees (64-75 F) that wear flowers almost all year around if is kept in good conditions. Il likes high humidity but it doesn't like to be mist on the leaves. It needs at least 12 hours of light per day to enjoy us with a long-term flowering.

Saintpaulia wears a large variety of flowers, from white, pink, red, blue, violet to bi or multi-colored flowers. They may be single with 5 petalled, semi-double with small crests or lobes in the middle of the 5 petals or fully double with two or more layers of petals. The flowers can also be star-shaped or bell-shaped and the petal edges may be ruffled, rounded, frilled or fringed.

It can be raised from seeds sown in early spring as soon as they ripe but the easiest way is to root leaf cuttings at 24-27 Celsius degrees (75-81 F) at any time of the year. Cut healthy leaves from the parent plant. Put the leaf into a glass of water inserted through an aluminum folio, the one that you use in the kitchen, that is placed over the glass. Make sure that the base of the leaf is in water. It will root in few weeks, after that you can plant it.

You can also insert each stalk in a small pot of cutting compost so that the leaf blade is just clear of the compost. Water and cover the pots. Small cloches made from the bases of plastic drink bottles are just fine. Leave them in a warm place, in good light but out of direct sun.

Each leaves should produce several plantlets. When these will develop enough you can remove the covers and grow them on until they become large enough to pot up individually.