Tawawa (above) Is a very nice attractive single white star with a bright pink stripe chimera African violet. The foliage is medium green (AVSA 12/20/14, Reg#10734, M. Akuzawa). I noticed on one of the small Tawawa I was propagating from tissue culture, that the leaves were not the typical medium green but had turned dark green. Typically when I see a change in the foliage color or in the foliage type it is essentially a warning that the genetics on that plant have changed compared to its stock plant and most assuredly the bloom will be different. And when the plant bloomed the below is what the bloom looked like.
Generally a pink bloom with purple thumbprint on each petal and a darker pink center. This is the first ploom on this young plant and I have no idea if the rest of the bloom will be identical to this one or do in some other direction. But we will see.
