Varieties of violets with photos

One of the wonderful house plants that you can’t help but love, that you can’t pass by, is, of course, the violet. The delicate flowers of this plant are simply mesmerizing, and the variety of colors and shades will delight the most discerning collector of home flowers. You can endlessly consider different varieties of violets with photos and admire them.

The history of the “domestication” of violets began at the end of the 19th century, when the first violet flower with red-violet petals was obtained. And at the beginning of the 20th century, the breeding of new varieties of Saintpaulia (this is the second name for violets) was put on stream. The first double flowers, flowers with spots appeared, and in 1940 the first plants with white flowers appeared. By the 50s, there were more than two dozen different varieties, with flowers of various shades.

Today in the world there are already thousands of varieties Usambara violets. Hundreds of breeders, both foreign and domestic, worked on their breeding. Thanks to this work, violets appeared in a variety of shades, shapes of flowers and leaves, and sizes. In order to describe all varieties of violets with photos, you will need more than one page (there is clearly not enough space on the site), so we will make do with only the main classification, which distinguishes violets by color, shape, and type of flower.

• Limbed Saintpaulias are distinguished by a border around the edge of the flower.
• If you come across a violet flower that seems to have been splattered with paint, then this fantasy Saintpaulia.
• Under the unsympathetic word "chimera“hiding is a very pretty violet flower, which is painted with stripes of different colors.
• Classic type violets are a simple flower with five petals.
• Star-shaped The violet type is a violet with a flower that has uniform petals with a pointed end.
• Violet "bell" As the name implies, the flower is shaped like a bell.