Introduction to the different types of blossoms

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This page will deal with the different types of blossoms in the African Violets. The majority of the text was taken from African Violet Society of America Handbook For African Violet Growers, Exhibitors, and Judges of which a copy maybe obtained from AVSA. I strongly any person that is serious about African Violets invest in a copy of the handbook, it is not only for judges but also for growers. The handbook has a vast amount of useful information for anyone growing African Violets.

Bell:

Single blossoms with a bell shape. ?????????

Chimera:

These blossoms which come in all color combinations, have stripes that radiate from the center, to form a pinwheel. These are one of my favorite blossoms but, the plant has to be prograted from suckers, or rooted from bloomstalks so therefore are not that wide spread. The one that I have is ????????? which is a single pink fantasy with a white stripe.

Fantasy:

Blossoms are splotched, streaked or rayed with contrasting color or deeper shade of the same color. The blossoms can be of any knid or shape. The blossom I have choosen to repersent the fantasy blossoms is ????????? this is just one example of the many plants that have fantasy blossoms. This is one of my favortie type of blossoms but it does have a draw back, it doesn't always reproduce true.

Fringed:

Blossoms have heavily serrated or finged outerlobes. The blossoms can be any kind or shape. This one was a hard one for me to come up a blossom to scan, when I got to looking I didn't really have that many plants with fringed blossoms especially one that would show up when scanned. When I really got to looking I could only find one ?????????

Edged:

Blossoms can be any shape. Lobes of the blossoms are edged with any color. Geneva or Geneva edged: Lobes of the blossoms are edged with white only. ?????????

Multicolor:

Blossoms with two or more colors. ?????????

Semidouble:

Blossoms that possess more than the standard five lobes, such as those blosoms with a acrest or tuft at the center, but less than a full second row of petals. blossoms may appear single. ?????????

Single:

Blossoms have five lobes, with two upper lobes that are usually smaller than the three lower ones. ?????????

Star:

Blossoms have five lobes of about equal size and distance from one another. The blossoms can be single semidouble, or double. The double star has extra layers of petals but maintains the star form. ?????????

Two-tone:

Blossoms haveing two or more shades of a color. ?????????

Wasp:

Blossoms are single and each lobe is very narrow. ?????????