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  2. Streptocarpus ionanthus - Wikipedia

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    Streptocarpus ionanthus. ( H.Wendl.) Christenh. [ 2] Petrocosmea ionantha (H.Wendl.) Baill. Saintpaulia ionantha H.Wendl. Streptocarpus ionanthus ( synonym Saintpaulia ionantha) is a species of Streptocarpus in the section Saintpaulia, commonly known as an African violet. It is native to eastern and southwestern Tanzania.

  3. Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia - Wikipedia

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    Streptocarpus ionanthus flowers. Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia is a section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella[ 1] consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa.

  4. Streptocarpus - Wikipedia

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    Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia ("African violet") is a separate section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella. [ 6 ] DNA studies have shown that, despite not having a twisted fruit, African violets evolved from within the Tanzanian Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella .

  5. Viola (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are ...

  6. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    Mauve (from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a color that is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow[ 27] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. [ 28] Since the color mauve has a hue code of 276, it may be regarded as a pale tone of violet.

  7. Viola sororia - Wikipedia

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    Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.

  8. A Young Lady in 1866 - Wikipedia

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    A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parakeet is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model Victorine Meurent, wearing a pink gown, holding a small bouquet of violettes and accompanied by an African Grey Parrot. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

  9. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [ 2]