Roots fibrous. Stems erect to 1 m tall with persistent, papery stipules that encase the stem between each node. Leaves kidney-shaped, to 15 cm long, fleshy, dark green glossy above, heavily white felted above and below. Flowers few, white, with spicy fragrance.
Brazil
CULTIVARS
SEMPERFLORENS GROUP
This group comprises the bedding or wax begonias available in a range of flower and foliage colour cultivars; they are long-flowering, and in Australia are often grown as annuals although they may be divided and replanted in spring. Grown as annuals they may be established from seed or propagated by cuttings or division. The roots of this group are fibrous.
Source: (1997). Begoniaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Stems thickish, erect, to 25 cm tall. Leaves glossy green, with red spot at the petiole junction, the stalks attached away from the margin (peltate). Flowers white, profuse.(B. conchifolia var. rubrimacula × B. 'Maphil')
Raised by Merv. Sharrad, Australia.
Begonia venosa 'Sharon's Image'
Stems to 1 m tall, red, succulent. Leaves ovate to 13 cm, cupped; surface glossy, glabrous, dark green with bronze border; reverse flushed red, darker at edges. Margins doubly toothed, hairy. Flowers numerous, bright pink. (B. 'Duchartrei' × B. coccinea)
Raised by Jan Goodwin in 1983.
Roots fibrous. Stems erect to 1 m tall, pale green with white, bristly hairs. Leaves to 25 cm long, dark green velvety upper surface covered with short, pink hairs and light green veins; red below, hairy; margins toothed, hairy. Flowers to 4 cm wide, white, hairy. Females have bright pink ovaries. (B. olsoniae × B. 'UO49')
Raised by Jan Goodwin, Australia in 1990.
