African Violets and Gesneriads: New Member needs African Violet ID, 1 by bmedel

bmedel wrote:
Well my beautiful violet that I started this thread about is going to stay a NOID : ( After doing all my record checking and double checking myself on the fact that it came labeled as Guelph's Dynamite I did another search for Guelph's Dynamite online.

With that I came across a nice woman who was offering some on a trade list on another garden site. We wrote back and forth and she sent me a picture of her Guelph's Dynamite which looked nothing like mine and very much like the first picture I had found of one online. Figure that. :))))) LOL

I then found the e-mail address of the person I had bought mine from and told her of my dilemma and how the violet came to me labeled Guelph's Dynamite but looked nothing like others I'd found. I then sent her several pictures of this violet asking her if she recognized it and if she had ever grown maybe another violet that looked like this one, really hoping that was the case. Seemed to me this was a distinctive enough bloom that you would know if you'd grown it before but.......
This was her reply....

well, I went to the AVSA First Class program and looked at their pictures. I agree their pictures do not match their description which is this:
Guelph's Dynamite (9121) 04/20/2002 (J. Brownlie/Guelph University) Semidouble-double pink ruffled star/variable fuchsia fantasy markings; thin white-green edge. Light green, quilted, glossy, wavy, serrated. Large

I do not see any fantasy markings on any of the pictures you sent, but your's seems to fit the descripton the best. Pink, ruffled, thin white green edge. Foliage is correct. I have been growing plants for many years and there is always a difference in some plants along the way. Some get so out of bounds, I toss it and try to find another starter or I just eliminate the plant because it does not stay true."

So since I am not willing to toss such a beautiful plant because it supposedly went haywire somewhere I will keep it as a NOID and I will share it as such.

~Brenda