The most common species of Thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, is yellow in color, but Thrips may also be brown or black. In most cases, however, their presence is unmistakable. As Thrips feed, they spill pollen from the anthers , leaving a light yellow powder on the flowers. More information . See Slow-Release .
Flowers are white with a pink edge.
Leaves are dark green. Available in the U.S. as Gisela . Method of propagation which reproduces African Violets from meristem cells. The method involves taking a tissue culture from the leaf stems and cultivating new plantlets in an agar medium which been fortified with growth hormones . While a leaf cutting may produce two or three new plantlets, it only takes a square centimeter of meristem cells to produce thousands.