B. baliensis

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

D. Girmansyah, Bali and Lombok species of Begonia (begoniaceae): 2008 “Stem brownish green to reddish brown, erect and cane-like, succulent, rhizomatous, hairy, herbaceous, little branched, 15-50 cm tall, 8-15 mm diam; nodes brownish green to reddish brown, swollen; without a tuber. Stipules pale green, glabrous, narrowly triangular, 2-25 x 5-10 mm, margin entire, tip 2–3 mm long, setose, caducous. Leaves distant; petiole pale green to reddish brown, hairy, terete, 7.5 -30 cm long, 5-8 mm diam; lamina oblique, hairy above, thinly leathery in life, papery when dried, broadly ovate, asymmetric, 14–21 x 11-18 cm, broad side 6.5-11 cm wide, basal lobe rounded, 3.5–7.5 cm long, margin scalloped and minutely toothed, apex acuminate; venation palmate-pinnate, 2-3 at the base and 2 pairs along the midrib with 2–3 veins in basal lobe, branching one third of the way to the margin, grooved above, beneath prominent. Inflorescences axillary, few flowered, shorter than the leaves, peduncle green, glabrous, 2-8 cm long, male flowers 4, female flowers 7, protandrous; bract absent. Male flowers with a pale reddish green pedicel 1.3–2.5 cm long; tepals 4, white and red around the middle toward, glabrous, rotund, margin entire, tip rounded, outer two 13–15 x 11-12 mm, inner two similar but smaller, milky white, 11-14 x 8–9 mm; stamens many, stamen cluster globose, 5-6 mm across ; filament c. 1-2 mm long; anthers pale yellow, narrowly obovate, 1.5-2 mm long, apex emarginate, opening by slits. Female flowers with a pale green pedicel 4-5 mm long; ovary dark green with reddish brown at the larger wing, thick and fleshy, 7-9 x 5-8 mm, locules 3, placentas 2 per locule; tepals 5, milky white, outer two reddish white, broadly obovate, margin not toothed, tip rounded, 14–17 x 10-11 mm; styles 3, style and stigma greenish yellow, 4–5 mm long, stigma spiral. Fruits pendent on stiff fleshy pedicel, 4-5 mm long , berry green with ripe, fleshy,10-15 x 10 mm, globose, elongated into a fleshy beak, glabrous, 3-lobed, with one larger wings, locules 3, not splitting, stigmas caducous. Seeds barrel-shaped, 0.25-0.3 mm long, collar cell almost as long as or ¾ the seed length.