African Violets and Gesneriads: I finally got one!, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
Gosh, yes, there are blue AVs! :-)

I'll have to take a picture of my 'Kingwood Blue' tomorrow -- first time blooming for me, with huge double blossoms of true medium blue. On some AVs, it's a toss-up as to whether a bloom color should be called blue or purple, but this one is unmistakably blue.

Here's a noid (no ID) AV that I call by the imaginative name "Blue TLV NoID" for its blooms and its variegation pattern. The color in this photo seems fairly true to me, and I'd say the blooms are closer to true blue than to blue-violet.

It's hard to figure out the "actual" colors of violets from photos, as color balance is often "off" (for instance, your mini above looks quite blue to me rather than light purple as you describe), and even descriptions can be pretty subjective when it comes to separating blue from purple or red from magenta-pink. That's why it's difficult to even guess at an ID for a noid AV, and it's impossible to identify them with any certainty from a photo.