African violet grows and blooms in low light. Moderate light will burn or discolor the plant. Aeschynanthus lobbianus and A. pulcher are known as lipstick plants . They are trailing plants with green leaves and tubular flowers that have a brownish tubular calyx out of which emerges the bright red flowers that appear to be a tube of lipstick until the petals open. Episcia reptans is known as the episcia or the flame violet .
Episcias have colorful foliage, often with bright color patterns.
Most produce showy, bright flowers. The trailing plant is best allowed to grow hanging over the edge of the container. Each plant produces many plantlets on the runners that develop off the mother plant. Gloxinia is in the genus Sinningia . It produces large numbers of flowers but most types go into a rest period after flowering.