Plate 1 figs. a–f · 5 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 1 botanical country
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | CLM | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 55 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 7.9 °C | 14.7 °C | 21.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.6 °C | 22.8 °C | 30.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,819 mm | 2,971 mm | 5,069 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 88 mm | 463 mm | 1,023 mm |
It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 55 research-grade observations of Kohleria amabilis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 21 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Achimenes amabilis (Planch. & Linden) Van Houtte
- Achimenes kewensis hort. ex Vilmorin
- Achimenes picta Benth. ex Hook.
- Achimenes picta Benth.
- Diastema pictum (Benth. ex Hook.) Walp.
- Giesleria picta (Benth. ex Hook.) Regel
- Gloxinia picta Hort. ex Vis.
- Isoloma amabile (Planch. & Linden) Hort. ex Bellair & St.-Lég.
- Isoloma amabilis (Planch. & Linden) Bellair & St.-Lég.
- Isoloma bogotense G.Nicholson
- Isoloma bogotense var. amabile (Planch. & Linden) Voss
- Isoloma ceciliae (André) Hort. ex Bellair & St.-Lég.
- Isoloma tydaea L.H.Bailey
- Isoloma venosum (Hort. ex Lesc.) Bedd.
- Kohleria bogotensis (G.Nicholson) Fritsch
- Tydaea amabilis Planch. & Linden
- Tydaea ceciliae André
- Tydaea karsteniana Hort. Naun ex Hanst.
- Tydaea picta (Benth. ex Hook.) Decne.
- Tydaea picta var. karsteniana Hort. ex Hanst.
- Tydaea venosa Hort. ex Lesc.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.