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Blooming Begonia U485
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Begonia integrifolia from Northern Thailand, 2 or 3 weeks after emerging from tuberous dormacy
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Begonia U545, collected by Rekha Morris. This is a thicker leaved form of the species with shorter petioles, and larger leaves. Quite beautiful.
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Unidentified Begonia Species U512
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In my garden, there's more than flowers that will fade. All colored day light brightness will yield to pale ambivalence. And memory, grown thin and friendless, shall find forgetting. Until, at the end of time, time too is ended. DRMK
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Begonia venosa, like B. burkillii, produces baccate fruit, in lieu of the usual paper-thin seed pods. Venosa is native to Brazil, adapted to arid, scrubland conditions. My plant receives morning sun. I find it best to slice baccate fruit in half
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Begonia chlorosticta, of the Asian section Petermannia, is a high humidity begonia, here grown beside a humidifier. "The species has a very restricted wild distribution, occurring only on remote forested hills at the southeastern end of the Hose Mountai
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Begonia microsperma, a high humidity, low light, African begonia, giving me a late spring bloom. Happy growing, Randy
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One more week of my post-surgical boot, but I just had to pull up a few weeds. In doing so this afternoon, I uncovered Begonia listada, native to the southern tip of Brazil where, as Don Miller notes in his Begonian report, it is a rare species. Readil
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Begonia chlorosticta, the rainbow. As I learned when visiting a Chinese language website, the chlorosticta we have in cultivation represents only a narrow slice of a rainbow of color found naturally presented by this species. I say presented because col
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Begonia heracliefolia, inflorescence
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Begonia U607 cf. rockii leaf propagation
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Begonia U479 leaf propagation
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Begonia U514 male inflorescence
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Begonia imperialis, inflorescence. This Rehka Morris seed collection of Begonia imperialis, provided to me by Steve Rosenbaum's StevesLeaves, is the Real McCoy! I have never had a plant sold, or given to me, with the imperialis label to bloom like this :
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Begonia strigilosa, a creeping "eyelash" species from Central America.
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Begonia conchifolia rubrimacula, before the snails got to it
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Begonia ionophylla, from Sumatra
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Begonia U074 Origin: Lobo, The Philippines Color is more intense under bright light.
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Begonia squamulosa, female inflorescence, photo attached. B. squamulosa readily produces male inflorescence. But never before have I seen the lovely female flowers. A friend, wiser than I, has likewise bemoaned the lack of female blooms. I began to wo
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Begonia pustulata
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Begonia perakensis My source of information regarding this rare species is that wonderful work, Begonias of Peninsular Malaysia, by Ruth Kiew. B. perakensis is endemic in Peninsular Malaysia, on the Main Range in south Perak and Selangor. This species
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Begonia rubriflora, female flowers. This begonia almost never stops blooming. I like that this Argentine species branches well to form a full, yet compact, plant. Best growth and bloom, however, if the medium is not allowed to completely dry out. As t
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Begonia cavallyensis, section Tetraphila. Thanks Michael Kartuz! An epiphytic rainforest species from the Guineo-Congolian region of West Africa. "The fruit of bird-dispersed B. cavallyensis has attractively colored placentae and inner walls that signal w
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Begonia diadema, we think. It has a nice sweet taste.
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Begonia loranthoides subsp. rhopalocarpa, female inflorescence, side view
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Begonia loranthoides subsp. rhopalocarpa, female inflorescence
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Begonia variegata formerly masoniana var maculata, female inflorescence. Ovary, 1 centimeter in length
