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On The Ledge

Episode 225: Sinningia

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I’m joined by plant geneticist and microbiologist David Zaitlin to talk about this fascinating genus, with a focus on florist gloxinia and Sinningia leucotricha.

For full show notes visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/sinningia-leucotricha-speciosa

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0:00.0

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1:22.1

Don't worry, I'm here on the ledge podcast, episode 225, let's go.

1:32.8

Welcome to the show.

1:34.8

In this episode, I talked to Sininja expert, David Zaitland, all about this fascinating genus,

1:43.1

focusing on the species,

1:45.8

Sinindia speciosa, the totally OTT and glorious and, well, admittedly, a little bit out of fashion,

1:53.7

florist gloxinia, as it's known, and Sininia Lucatrika.

1:59.3

Perhaps I can say the trendy cousin,

2:02.0

who's very much in demand right now.

2:08.9

Thanks for all the lovely feedback on last week's show

2:12.1

from the Chelsea Flower Show.

2:14.5

And thanks to Diane for becoming a legend.

2:21.2

Joining Patreon this week, and Diane has unlocked lots of extra content including the first 50 episodes of On the Ledge ever made which are only

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