I do love the way your O. Montana looks! However, I don't think I'd have guessed it. I'm not familiar with O. Montana at all though. My old O. Dali looked exactly like the first photo on the AVSA photo gallery. This one doesn't look like that at the moment but who knows what will happen? It is a big star and I clearly am at a loss to explain the color. It certainly isn't as purplish as rob333's appears on my monitor. It is some pinkish tone. Right now it's disbudded and quarantined. Wait a minute = are those blossoms stars (5 pollen sacs/anthers) on your plant? I only see 4. Dali is a star. I know that sometimes my first blooms seem to have trouble "getting it together" though. Seurat is listed and shown as a pansy and that looks more like Seurat to me (if it's a pansy). I just looked at MyViolet trying to figure out some other ones. Diana This post was edited by quimoi on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 11:53

I know you said your plant had plain green leaves, but I did see a mini violet on a Russian website with variegated leaves called "Little White Clouds" that you might want to check out as well. It's also a Pittman hybrid, and it's an older variety. Here's the link: http://miniviolets.ru/library/little_white_clouds.html I don't grow any variegated violets, but I have heard that they can lose their variegation under some growing conditions, especially warmer temps. So I just put it out there as a possibility. :) Good luck in your search! Claire

Congrats to you!!! But I guess you didnt see my post about how I founf this violet at my Lowes. By pure accident and NO tag on it, I picked this green blooming violet up for only $4. I never heard of it till that day. About 7 months ago. Then i found out just how expensive it is and how rare it is. That from the grower online it cost over $29 to get a young plant NOT in bloom. My first one died in less than a month, i over watered it. Then i got put on the 'My Violet' notification email system, from Optimara, it tells me when Optimara is shipping to Lowes,... so I have gone back when i know they are freshly in, and I saw up to 10 'MySensations' in a the flat! So I bought 3 of them, about 3 weeks ago. I could have gotten all ten, i love ANY green violet, and knowing this one cost SO much, not even in bloom, but i could get them for $4, in full bloom at Lowes, so I stocked up on them. I am keeping them much drier and they are in full bloom and growing, but they have a 'flat crown'. Not the usual lifted up center. Is this normal for this violet? The flowers are all around the edges, under the outer ring of leaves. But the center is like it was flattened out by an iron:) is this normal? They are growing and putting out new bloom stems, so they are doing great,but the crown is 'flat'.

A lot of my AV's and some of my streptocarpus are color changers based on temperatures at time of blooming. So it has become something I am interested in documenting. Such as how some fantasy patterns nearly go away in hot summer but are super intense in winter, and then some other fantasy hybrid right next to it on the same shelves shows almost no variation at all. Some of my most dramatic temperature sensitive AV's so far are my Russians that have white on them. Wow, huge differences in color and sometimes flower form too, from summer to winter. For example, RS Roskina in summer looks like this: In spring or autumn, it looks like this: And in chilly winter or early spring, it's nearly all white with even larger flowers like this: All the exact same plant at various stages this past year.