How to Know and Grow Gesneriads
The Gesneriad Society is an international organization, chartered as a nonprofit corporation by the State of Missouri and functioning internationally. The Society is a group of over 1000 people who share an interest in the culture and botany of gesneriads. Originally founded in 1951 as The American Gloxinia Society, an association devoted to the growing and propagation of Florist Gloxinias (Sinningia speciosa) and other gesneriads, the Society's name name was changed in 1966 to The American Gloxinia and Gesneriad Society. In 2006 the name was simplified to The Gesneriad Society to best reflect the identity of the organization. The Society's journal, founded in 1951 as THE GLOXINIAN, is now called GESNERIADS.