Streptocarpus Double Peppermint Candy

Streptocarpus ’Double Peppermint Candy’. 1999, IR99597, J. Ford, OH. [1996]. (‘Cranberry’ x ‘Snow Sparkle’). Seed fertile, pollen sterile, reproducible only vegetatively. Rosette, mature in 15 cm (6 in.) pot. Leaves bullate, dark green, 24 cm long x 11 cm wide, elliptic with crenate margin, acute tip and cuneate base. 3-5 flowers per peduncle. Corolla salverform, double, tube 3 cm long, limb 4 cm x 4.5 cm, white upper lobes, lower lobes white with solid red markings basally and heavy red veins extending toward edges of lobes. Available from Rock Bottom Farms, LTD, OH.