Gesneriaceae: flowers of the family
10 flowers on Phool that belong to the family Gesneriaceae.
Brazilian gloxiniaSinningia speciosa
A tuberous houseplant with large, velvety flowers from Brazil
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Garden flower
HaberleaHaberlea rhodopensis
A rare Balkan flower that revives after years without water
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 1 more · Wildflower
Ramonda nathaliaeНаталијина рамонда
A small Balkan flower that can survive drying out and revive with water
🇷🇸 Serbia and 2 more · Wildflower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Cape primroseStreptocarpus
A houseplant with tubular blooms from African mountains and forests
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Gloxinia
A small group of tropical flowering herbs from the Andes
Gloxinia · Wildflower
Ramonda serbica
A Balkan wildflower that can survive extreme drying and revive with water
🇷🇸 Serbia and 1 more · Wildflower
Sinningia
Tuberous flowering plants from Central and South America, grown for their bright blooms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
Streptocarpus ionanthus
A small flowering plant native to eastern and southwestern Tanzania
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Chilean mitre flowerMitraria coccinea
A scarlet-orange tubular-flowered climber from southern South America
🇨🇱 Chile and 1 more · Climber
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Brazilian gloxinia: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haberlea: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ramonda nathaliae: Francine Riez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gloxinia: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sinningia: Andy king50, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Streptocarpus ionanthus: Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chilean mitre flower: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, source