Gloxinia
Sinningia speciosa (G.Lodd. ex Ker Gawl.) Hiern
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Gesneriaceae
Also called Brazilian gloxinia
Formerly Gloxinia caulescens, Gloxinia digitaliflora, Gloxinia discolor, Gloxinia diversiflora, and 24 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyte or lithophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Gloxinia
- Czech
- gloxínie nádherná
- Russian
- Синнингия красивая
- Japanese
- オオイワギリソウ
- Chinese
- 大岩桐, 女王大岩桐
- Polish
- Syningia ogrodowa, Gloksynia doniczkowa, Syningia okazała
- German
- Gloxinie
- Finnish
- isogloksinia
- Chinese (China)
- 大岩桐
- Slovak
- siningia nádherná
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Sinningia speciosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.