Indoor violets are one of the most favorite indoor flowers for many growers. Due to the variety of colors and sufficient ease of care, these flowers are very popular. According to the description, indoor violets are similar to each other, but there are a number of differences. Basically, this concerns the shades of inflorescences and the shape of the leaves.
The names of varieties of indoor violets (both the most common and rare species), as well as photographs of flowers, are offered to your attention on this page.
Houseplant Violet Williams
Synonyms: pansies
Distribution area: In culture everywhere.
The colors of the flower, like those of Wittrock’s violet, are very diverse, with spots and shading of other colors. Flowering begins at the end of April and continues throughout the warm season. Growing conditions. Prefers nutritious, moist and loose soils, sunny or semi-shady places. Very cold-resistant, neutral to the length of the day.
As you can see in the photo, the room violet of this species is similar to Wittrock’s violet. It differs from the latter in stronger branching, a greater abundance of flowering, but smaller flowers (with a diameter, depending on the variety, from 2 to 5 cm).
Usage. An excellent plant for pots and hanging baskets, in which it can form flowering ampelous cascades. It can also be widely used as a flower bed plant.
Below are photos and names of Williams violet varieties.
The variety of indoor violets of the F1 Angel series (F1 Angel) has a height of 12-15 cm, a flower diameter of 3-4 cm. It consists of 16 varieties with different flower colors, including “F Angel Tiger Eye” (“F1 Angel Tiger Eye”) – with orange-yellow flowers with bright brown venation. Used to decorate containers.
Cottage series – plant height 10-12 cm, flower diameter 2 cm. Consists of 4 varieties with yellow-blue, purple-white, red-yellow, purple-cream flowers. Used to decorate containers.
According to the description, the violets of the F1 series are similar to the Cottage variety, but they are more compact in size. Plant height 7-10 cm, flower diameter 4-5 cm. Consists of 4 varieties with bright, two- and three-color flowers. Ideal group for hanging planters and baskets.
Indoor Wittrock violet flowers and their photos
Synonyms. Pansies. Distribution area. Everywhere in culture.
Houseplant Wittrock’s violet is a perennial of complex hybrid origin, created with the participation of tricolor violet (V. tricolor), Altai violet (V. altaica), yellow violet (V. lutea) and horned violet (V. cornuta). Strongly branching plant of compact or semi-spreading form, 15-40 cm high. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, with crenate edges, ovate or oval below and narrow at the top of the shoot.
The flowers are large, 4 to 12 cm in diameter, solitary, formed in the axils of the leaves. Corolla 5-petal, various colors, from pure white to jet black, monophonic or with strokes and spots of various colors and sizes. Petals can be smooth, corrugated or with wavy edges. Flowering begins at the end of April and continues throughout the warm season.
Growing room violet Wittrock
When growing indoor violets, you need to use nutritious, moist and loose soils, sunny or semi-shady places. It can be grown as an annual, biennial or perennial crop.
Indoor Wittrock violet flowers are exceptionally widely used in landscaping around the world as a garden, flower bed, container, pot plant.
Varieties. Over the past 150-200 years, breeders and flower lovers have created a very large number of Wittrock violet varieties that differ in size, flower color, flowering time, flowering duration, resistance to various environmental factors, methods of application in landscaping and many other features. In the second half of the 20th century, varieties were replaced by heterotic hybrids F1. Over the past three or four decades, many series, or variety groups, have been created, including dozens of F1 hybrids.
Most of these hybrids are distinguished by early, abundant and long-term flowering: while the old sora lose their decorative effect in mid-July – early August (flowers become small, flowering is not abundant, and bushes are not compact), F1 hybrids have a beautiful view until late autumn. Compared to varieties, hybrids are more viable, grow faster, start blooming earlier, and are less affected by diseases. Practically for each hybrid variety or group, its own technology has been worked out, which makes it possible to calculate the time of flowering with an accuracy of up to a day.
Such hybrids look great in a flower bed, have almost perfect evenness in size and color of flowers and plants. It is these hybrids that now form the basis of the industrial range of violas, while the varieties have remained mainly in amateur floriculture.
In the literature on floriculture, one can find various systematics of varieties and groups of violas, the most famous of them is the grouping according to the size of the flowers.
Small-flowered violas include varieties and hybrids with a flower diameter of 4.5-6 cm.
Description of a houseplant violet Hemalis
Garden group Hemalis-winter (Hiemalis) with a diameter of flowers of 4.5-5.5 cm was registered in 1916. The varieties included in it are winter hardy, early and long flowering.
As you can see in the photo, Himalis violets are distinguished by compact bushes and bright flowers.
The variety “Helios” (“Helios”) has golden yellow flowers.
The “Mars” variety has ultramarine blue petals and dark “eyes”.
Variety “ North Pole” – with pure white flowers and even white seeds.
“Himmelskönigin” (“HimmelskOnigin”) – with sky-blue flowers.
“Jupiter” (“Jupiter”) – with purple-violet lower and white upper petals.
Beautiful varieties of violets of the Universal F1 series
The modern series Universal F1 (Universal Series F1) consists of 10 varieties with very compact, abundant and early flowering plants.
Variety type Rococo (Rococo) – plants with bright, variegated flowers with a diameter of 5.5 cm and strongly corrugated petals. The variety has an exotic, unusual appearance, but, unfortunately, in the conditions of Russia, the corrugation of the petals rarely appears.
“Flamenco F1” (“Flamenco Fj”) – the variety has red-orange petals with a blurry yellow spot and shading in the center.
This room violet got its name because of the similarity with the outfits of Spanish dancers performing flamenco. Can be grown in flower beds, containers and pots throughout the summer.
“Eye of the Tiger” (“Tigereye”) – a variety with an amazing color – brownish-yellow, with small dark spots in the center and shading on all petals.
Varieties of violets of the Trimardo group
Mid-flowered violas include groups with flower sizes from 6 to 7.5 cm.
The oldest of the mid-flowered groups – Trimardo (Trimardeau) – was bred in France in the 1880s. Plants of this garden group are distinguished by fast and strong growth, good foliage, rather large size and beautiful flower shape, as well as abundant flowering.
Thanks to such remarkable qualities, some varieties of this group are alive to this day, and not only exist in amateur collections, but are also widely used in landscaping.
Some of the most beautiful varieties of violets of the Trimardo group:
“Adonis” (“Adonis”) – with a pale blue flower and an “eye”.
“Cardinal” (“Cardinal”) – with a dark red flower and a darker “eye”.
“Lord Beaconsfield” is one of the best in the group, has blue-violet lower petals and a white sail.
One of the most beautiful descriptions has a houseplant violet “Morenkönig” (“MohrenkOnig”) with a coal-black flower.
In our time, an improved version of this variety with a larger flower has been created – “Super Beaconsfield” (“Super Beaconsfield”) .
Group of violets Schweitzer Riesen
Since 1927, the Schweizer Riesen group (Schweizer Riesen, “Swiss Giant”) has been known, which has large flowers with a diameter of 6-7 cm, low compact plants, high winter hardiness and abundant early flowering. Varieties of violets of this group quickly gained popularity in many countries and are widely cultivated at the present time.
The most famous varieties of violets in this group:
“Abendglut” (“Abendglut”) – with dark red flowers and a dark spot.
“Alpensee” (“Alpensee”) – blue with a dark spot.
“Bergwacht” (“Bergwacht”) – violet-blue.
“Orange Sun” (“Orange Sonne”) – orange-apricot with a dark spot.
“Firnengold” (“Firnengold”) – golden yellow with a brown spot.
“Firnenschnee” – pure white.
Pay attention to the photo of indoor flowers violet “Flamme” (“Flamme”), which has a dark spot on a brick-red background.
Many of these varieties can still be found in stores selling flower seeds to this day.
Modern series of violets
The modern series of violets include the Ultima F1 series (Ultima Series F1), created at the end of the 20th century, has profusely flowering compact plants with flowers about 6 cm in diameter. It consists of 26 varieties of different colors.
Series Crystal Bowl F1 (Crystal Bowl Series F1) – dwarf plants with small dark green leaves and numerous peduncles; bloom early. Flowers with a diameter of about 6 cm, uniform color, without eyes. Hybrids are resistant to heat, most attractive in groups. Consists of 12 varieties.
Series Maxim F1 (Maxim Series F1) – plants of early and long flowering period, resistant to heat and cold. Flowers with a diameter of 6 cm of various colors with a dark “eye” in the center. There are 12 varieties of violets in this series, photos of some of them are presented below.
The Joker F2 series (Joker F2) has a very interesting, double and even triple color of the petals. Flower diameter – from 6 to 7.5 cm. There are 7 varieties in the series.
The Weseler Eis series consists of 8 varieties. Pay attention to the photo: all varieties of room violets in this series have different flower colors.
Giant Forerunner is one of the most winter-hardy series, consisting of 15 varieties with different flower colors.
F1 Springtime (F1 Springtime) – a series of compact winter-hardy, long-flowering and early-flowering hybrids, consists of 20 varieties with different colors.
Among the varieties of the F1 Springtime Cassis series (F1 Springtime Cassis) – with velvety, dark purple flowers, all petals of which are edged with a thin white border.
“Padparadja F2” (“Padparadja F2”) – one of the most beautiful varieties with flowers of bright orange color and very long flowering.
In large-flowered violas, the diameter of the flowers is from 7.5 to 8.5 cm.
The modern Crown Series F1 (Crown Series F1) has dwarf compact highly branched bushes. Flowers up to 8.5 cm in diameter, very bright, pure, uniform color, without spots.
Plants are cold-resistant, bloom early; look most impressive in mass plantings.
The series consists of 9 varieties of different colors and variety mix Crown Formula Mixed (Crown Formula Mixed).
The Regal F1 series (Regal Series F1) differs from the Crown F1 series (Crown F1) only in the presence of dark “eyes” on the petals. The series consists of 7 varieties and variety mixtures.
Vintage series of violets
The largest of the old series of violets is Quedlinburger Riesen (Quedlinburger Riesen, “Giant Quedlinburg”) . Flowers in plants of this group have a diameter of 7-7.5 cm. Early flowering, begins simultaneously with the Schweizer Riesen group, but winter hardiness, unfortunately, is low.
The Fancy F1 series (Fancy Serie F1) consists of 11 varieties of different colors, both plain and with a dark eye on the lower petals.
Fama Series F1 (Fama Serie F1) was created specifically for pot and container culture and consists of 17 varieties with different flower colors, both plain and variegated.
Chalon Supreme (Chalom Supreme) – 5 varieties and a variety mixture with white-lilac-violet-yellow flowers and highly corrugated petals.
The Cats Serie F1 series consists of 4 varieties and a mixture with a very original flower color: thin dark stripes on the three lower petals resemble a cat’s whiskers.
Giant violas have flowers with a diameter of 8.5-10 cm.
Majestic Giants F1 (F1 Majestic Giants) – a series consisting of 8 varieties similar to varieties of the Super Majestic Giants series (see below), but not with such large flowers, their diameter is “only” 10 cm.
F1Magnum (F1Magnum) – new in 2005. Early flowering series, consisting of 12 varieties of different colors.
In supergiant violas, the diameter of the flowers is more than 10 cm.
Super Majestic Giants F1 (F1Super Majestic Giants) is one of the best series. Plant height – 15 cm. Flowers reach a diameter of 11 cm.
Flowering is early and long, from spring to autumn. Plants are resistant to adverse weather conditions, including heat.
The group includes 8 varieties of different colors: from white and pale lilac to dark purple. Almost all varieties have a dark spot in the center of the flower.
The flowers of two varieties shown at one of the exhibitions had a yellow center and three spots (“for the eyes and for the lips”, as it was written in reports about the exhibition). Both of these varieties by that time were about 150 years old.
The variety “Irish Molly” (“Irish Molly”) , which has the color of flowers “a shade of green khaki, touched by yellow”, also aroused the surprise of visitors.
Indoor violet of the species Tarabar Variegated
Synonyms: None.
Distribution area: Japan.
The type of indoor violets Tarabar Variegated was obtained from crossing two species:
Eizan violets (V. eizanensis) , having palmate leaves with 3-5 lobes, up to 10 cm long and white or pink flowers.
And purple variegated violets (V. violacea f. variegate) , with narrow, lanceolate leaves, covered with silvery veins on top, and painted beetroot color below, the flowers are dark pink-purple.
As you can see in the photo, the view of the room violet Tarabarskaya Variegated has received signs of both the Eizan violet and the variegated violet.
Growing conditions. Natural species come from mountain forests, a hybrid species is cultivated in culture. Requires nutritious, relatively moist soils, relatively thermophilic.
Usage. A popular potted plant in Japan.
Below are the varieties of indoor violets with photos related to the type of violet Tarabar Variegated violet.
Variety “Dancing Geisha” (“Dancing Geisha”) – height 20 cm. The leaves are complexly dissected, with a silvery pattern along the veins. The flowers are raised above the leaves, fragrant, white or lilac.
“Silver Samurai” (“Silver Samurai”) – plant height up to 35 cm. The leaves are strongly dissected, with a silvery tint and a wavy edge, the flowers are lilac.
