"Looking at Mauro Peixoto's website page
http://www.brazilplants.com/gesneriaceae/sinningia/sinningia-conspicua.html
(Click on the link)
it looks like it is S. conspicua. A very good plant and a popular one with gesneriad growers for years,the flowers are fragrant at times. As it grows bigger, can send up multiple stems. Saw one about ten years ago with at least three stems and ten flowers open at once. You get one big flower from a leaf axil.
The name on the the pot was S. Iporanga reitzii, which are two different Sinningias. S. hatschbachii 'Iporanga' and S. reitzii have very different flowers and leaves, see the photos on Mauro's website for these. So the name is wrong on the pot. This happens. They are all good plants. S. reitzii seedlings are growing, hopefully lots by fall sometime."
This was a "show and tell" plant brought by S. J. for the club to see. It was an exceptional plant with really pretty blooms.
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