Hemiboea flaccida Velvet Touch Woody Lilies Bumblebees are the main pollinator

Bumblebees are the main pollinator for peonies

each heavily spotted with creamy yellow among the longitudinal creamy white and yellow stripes

which has so far endured only one winter outdoors for us

green rosettes just a few inches apart

Hemiboea flaccida Velvet Touch Woody Lilies Bumblebees are the main pollinatorWe received this lovely hardy gesneriad in 2004 as Hemiboea cavaleri, but after growing it for a few years, we keyed it out instead to the rare, Hemiboea flaccida. This African violet relative hails from up to 4,500' elevation in the alkaline forests of western Guangxi and southern Guizhou, China, where it grows among the rocks. Our nine year old plant of Hemiboea flaccida has made a slowly expanding patch to 18" wide. The luscious, felty green