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African_violet.
African Violets: The Complete Guide by Gwen Goodship
The African Violet Handbook by Tony Clements
Growing to Show: How to Grow Prize Winning African Violets by Pauline Bartholomew
Violets Are Blue by James Patterson
African Violets by Tony Clements
How to Grow African Violets (A Sunset Book) by Sunset Editors
Colorful World of African Violets by A.G.W. Simpson
Missy Violet and Me by Barbara Hathaway
How to Select and Grow African Violets and Other Gesneriads by Theodore James
The complete book of African violets by Helen Van Pelt Wilson
African Violets, Queens of the Indoor Gardening Kingdom by Melvin J. Robey
Floral Design Concepts With African Violets and Other Gesneriads by Ruth J. McCoy
All About African Violets: The Complete Guide to Success With Saintpaulias by Montague Free
African Violets and Related Plants by Bill Wall
Helen Van Pelt Wilson's African-Violet Book by Helen Van Pelt Wilson
African violet
The African violet (Saintpaulia) is of the Gesneriaceae family. A perennial plant with fine haired round leaves and velvety petals, African violets prefer a constant temperature with high humidity. They can be propagated by leaf cutting or seed.
The flower is indirectly named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul Illaire, the district commissioner of Tanga province who discovered the plant in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in Africa in 1892 and sent seeds back to his father, an amateur botanist, in Germany.
Two British plant enthusiasts, Sir John Kirk and Reverend W.E. Taylor, had earlier collected and submitted specimens to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1884 and 1887 respectively, but the quality of specimens was insufficient to permit scientific description at that time.
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