African Violets and Gesneriads: My new Gloxinia, 1 by Kaelkitty

Kaelkitty wrote:
I thought you guys might like to see this. I have never seen one with a double layer of petals like this before. Does this kind have a special name of some sort, or am I going to have to keep calling it "that purple Gloxinia I purchased on the Cottage Gardens Society trip to the Petal Power wholesale nursery" which, really is way too much of a mouthful!

Ciao, Kaelkitty.

PS I don't know much about these guys - except that I always have trouble getting them to come back for a second year, which I find very annoying! On the other hand, it cost me $6 (about $4.50 US) and you can't buy a bunch of flowers for that! This plant will carry on for a couple of months and I LOVE purple flowers so it's a pretty good deal by those standards.