Achimenes are known as hot water plants because it was thought plunging the pot into hot but not boiling water would make it flower.
BP-E HER GESNERIACEAE
Achimenes grandiflora (Schltdl.) DC.
DRY off
achimenes and set under a bench until needed.
A report on the classification of
Achimenes, Eucodonia, Seemannia, Goyazia, and Anetanthus (Gesneriaceae).
It belongs to the family gesneriaceae which includes African violets, gloxinias and
achimenes. Woodland plants, they dislike hot direct sun which scorches foliage, especially if wet.
APPENDIX 1 Species collected in the late 19th and early 20th century Species Date Collector Acalypha macularis 1906-10-28 Oton Jimenez 46 Acalypha amentacea 1906-12-03 Oton Jimenez 95 Acanthus mollis 1931-03-25 Juvenal Valerio 73
Achimenes grandiflora 1888-07-31 Paul Biolley
Achimenes longiflora 1888-07-31 Paul Biolley Acmella oppositifolia 1889-06-20 H.
55-65 Button fern Pellaea rotundifolia 60-75 Climbing bird's nest Polypodium punctatum 60-75 fern Creeping moss Selaginella 55-60 Deer's foot fern Davallia canariensis 60-75 Hart's tongue fern Phyllitis 60-75 scolopendrium Holly fern Cyrtomium falcatum 50-75 Holly fern Poloystichum tsus- 55-65 simense Maidenhair fern Adiantum raddianum 65-75 Maidenhair fern Adiantum tenerum 65-75 Palm-leaf fern Blechnum capense 60-64 Rabbit's foot fern Polypodium aureum 55-60 Stag's horn fern Platycerium 60-75 bifurcatum Tree maidenhair Didymochlaena 60-75 truncatula Flowering Plants
Achimenes Achimenes 55-60 African violet Saintapaulia ionantha 65-75 Azalea Rhododendron indicum 50-60 Basket vine Aeschynanthus 65-70 Billbergia Billbergia spp.
He writes: I have been given a few rhizomes of
achimenes. How do I grow them?
Dry off Begonia, Hippeastrum, Gloxinia, Lily,
Achimenes, Canna etc once flowering has finished.
Has: salad seeds, yellow gum weed, heirlom
achimenes, mistletoe cactus, short-ruffled daylily
En el estrato herbaceo destacan
Achimenes grandiflora, Arisaema macrospathum, Aulosepalum ramentaceum, Begonia incarnata, Botrychium schaffneri, Ceratozamia mexicana var.
Back in the 1950s
achimenes, also known as 'hot water plants', were popular house plants, not least because of their novelty value.
achimenes - any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias