Diastema Vexans

Diastema is a genus of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae containing approximately 20 species ranging from Mexico in the north to Bolivia and Venezuela in the south. Like other member of the large Gesneriaceae family, Diastema has tubular flowers that are often extremely beautiful. Diastema vexans has white flowers at the end of coloured tubes with white in the throat and violet stripes extending on to the lip. The insides of the petals are white with a lavender coloured pattern. It has a rhizome or creeping rootstalk, meaning a subterranean stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.