
x Smithicodonia 'Heartland's Joy' (D.Martens). The flowers are bright purple-burgundy, large, about 3 cm long, simple, bell-shaped, wide-open, slightly pubescent, decorated in a light brown specks throat and saturated color dark streaks on the petals. The leaves are dark green with a brown tint and darker streaks, velvety pubescent, long-petiolate, broadly oval, pointed, serrated on the edge. Stems are erect, bush neat, compact, blooming profusely and continuously. This intergeneric hybrid produced by crossing Smithiantha and Eucodonia, in 2011, at the exhibition of the Society of Gesneriaceae (The Gesneriad Society) was recognized as the best of the flowering plants.
