Gesneriad Societies

Gesneriad lovers and Gesneriad growers are distributed all over the world. Numerous societies and affiliate clubs have been established to communictae information and exchange experience on growing Gesneriaceae. Here a selection is quoted: 

• African Violet Society of America (AVSA)
  Beaumont, TX, USA, local clubs all over the world
  Magazine: "African Violet"
  Information: http://www.avsa.org/Home.html
  Find here also numerous AVSA affiliate websites, horticultural organizations and African Violet non-profit websites

• The Gesneriad Society 
  (formerly the American Gloxinia and Gesneriad Society, AGGS)
  General information: http://www.gesneriadsociety.org/

• Saintpaulia and Houseplant Society
  Ilford, Essex, UK
  Information: http://www.ashill.org/organisations/stpaulia.htm

• Société des Saintpaulia de Montréal
  Sherbrooke, East Montreal, CAN
  http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/vedettes/gesneriacees/gesneriacees.htm

• British Streptocarpus Society
  http://www.streptocarpussociety.org.uk/aboutthesociety.htm

• Gesneriphiles: an online forum for gesneriad and African violet growers
  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gesneriphiles

• Sinningia friends
  http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esinnvenner/sinns.htm