When I go to a trade show, I always look forward to going to the Optimara booth and seeing all the African violets. Today at the TPIE show in Fort Lauderdale, they were introducing their new series called the LooXo (“looks so”) violets and the one displayed was LooXo ‘gorgeous’. What is new about it you ask. Look close and you will see there are no yellow pollen sacs. It is called the ‘Filantherless’ violet series. It is touted to be a profuse bloomer, having high thrips resistance, and low botrytis susceptibility.
LooXo ‘gorgeous’
As you can see below, all violets have those yellow pollen sacs that thrips love. These new violets do not have those sacs.
A violet with the yellow pollen sacs
I kind of like the looks of the yellow sacs and the new LooXo will take some getting used to. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
A whole container of LooXo ‘gorgeous’
LooXo sign
A New Violet When I go to a trade show, I always look forward to going to the Optimara booth and seeing all the African violets.
