Stems spreading or climbing, light brown with short internodes, dense foliage. Leaves to 5 cm, more or less symmetrical, broadly ovate, dark glossy green surface; margins entire. Flowers white, wine-red splash at base of each petal, profuse, very fragrant.

Brazil

TUBEROUS BEGONIAS

This is a large group sometimes subdivided into the tuberous, tuberhybrida, semi-tuberous (maple-leaved), hiemalis (elatior begonias), chiemantha and chiemantha-like (winter-flowering Lorraine or Christmas Begonia) groups. The Non Stop Group has achieved recent popularity as open garden plants. Propagation is from side shoots that are about 5 cm long and have a small basal bud. The semi-tuberous group derived from B. socotrana and a red flowering tuberous begonia through further hybridisation gave rise to the (Elatior) hiemalis group which is represented in Australia by plants introduced from the USA. They are mainly grown in South Australia at Myponga and Toolangi, Victoria, chiefly as annual pot plants in various colours both single and double flowering types of the 'Aphrodite' and 'Schwabenland' series; they are propagated from stem cuttings.

Source: Wright, P.; Goodwin, J.; Spencer, R. (1997). Begoniaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.