Family: Gesneriaceae
Common Name: Smithiantha
| Description | These plants have beautiful foliage and flowers. They need warm humid conditions to grow properly. |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
| Sunlight | bright to moderate, good under flourescent lights |
| Moisture | evenly moist, humid |
| Growing Media | average house |
| Temperature | warm |
| Flowers | spires of nodding inflated bell-like flowers |
| Leaves | One of the neat characteristics of this plant is its velvet textured foliage. |
| Stems | rhizomatous |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Propagation | leaf cuttings, rhizomes and seeds |
| Native Site | moist, tropical woodland and rocks in Mexico |
| Notes & Reference | #02-Exotic Plant Manual (Alfred Byrd Graf) |
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