A perennial to about 1 m tall, generally grown as smaller forms and often treated as a bedding annual. Leaves ovate-elliptic, to 8 cm long, entire. Flowers axillary with a swollen calyx. Corolla tube to about 5 cm long, generally blue to violet with a white eye. Fruit capsule to 2 cm wide.
Colombia
Jingle Bells Hybrids: Growing to about 25 cm tall. Flowers ranging from white to blue and lavender.
Source: (2002). Solanaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Browallia speciosa 'Blue Troll'
Slow growing, neat spherical habit to about 25 cm tall with prolific blue flowers.
Browallia speciosa 'White Troll'
Slow growing, neat, spherical habit to about 25 cm tall with prolific white flowers.