My Primulina yungfuensis, 永福皮草 or 永福報春苣苔 in Chinese, surprised me by flowering on the first day of the new year! It was sitting on the second shelf in the corner of my balcony because it prefers shade as it is related to the common African violets. When I gave it a quick water during the Christmas and New Year period, I haven’t really looked at it carefully for a couple of weeks, so did not even notice its flower stalks forming, LOL… Then on the second day of the new year, I was watering it again and noticed some light magenta white things floating on top of the leaves, they are flowers just starting to bloom!
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