'Little Love Pink' is a lovely new variegated hybrid of the Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia. It has soft-pink blooms and gorgeously colored foliage, which is primarily dark grey-green with white variegation along the leaf edges.
They are extremely good flowering houseplants that are commonly known as African violets, although not being closely related to actual violets. It is a short, compact plant with appealing thick, hairy, dark green leaves. Just above the leaves, the violet-like blooms are produced in tiny panicles. Plants that are managed in healthy growth condition nearly always have flowers.
The genus name: Streptocarpus ("twisted fruit" from Greek στρεπτός (streptos) "twisted" and καρπός (carpos) "fruit")
Section name: Saintpaulia is named in honour of Walter, Freiherr (baron) von Saint Paul-Illaire, a German colonial official who is credited with their discovery by Europeans in German East Africa (now Tanzania) in 1892.
Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia 'Little Love Pink'
Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia 'Little Love Pink' comes in 9 cm pot and is ca. 20 cm tall.
