Gesneriads with bulbils ?

[Martin Bohnet]

Look what's growing on one of my NoId Achimenes varieties near the base of a flower stalk - that looks a lot like their rhizomes so is it a bulbil-type of thing? is that common in Gensneriads?? (Second pic is a repost of the corresponding flower)

[Uli]

Hello @Martin,

Yes, some Achimenes species do this and may also have handed this on to their hybrids. In some cases these aerial bulbils can even become troublesome because they drop and grow on in other pots.

Titanotrichum oldhamii produces a lot of minute bulbili. By the way, does anybody in the EU grow Titanotrichum? I lost my plant to mice and would love to grow it again, in a pot this time....

Uli