Species
B. frigida
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. frigida
- Author
- hort. ex A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 4.
- Publication Date
- 1859
- Section
- Pritzelia
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Possibly a cultivar?
- Reference
- Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 4. 11:143. 1859.—W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 86:pl. 5160. 1860.\; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, v.86 = ser. 3, v. 16, 1860;
Plant
- Description
- Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, v.86 = ser. 3, v. 16, 1860 B frigida - The foliage of this small species of Begonia, which we received from Continental gardens under the name here adopted, is more attractive than the flowers, which are unusually small and insignificant, and quite colorless; but our artist, Mr. Fitch, while making the drawing, detected a curious morphological structure, in the fact of one of the flowers having an inferior perianth of four very unequal sepals (such is are indicative of a male flower); and above their point of insertion are four stamens (apparently perfect), alternating with four superior, free, ovate ovaries, each with a short style, and two, downy, linear stigmas. It is to be regretted that no section was made of these ovaries, which from situation and in form so little resemble the three celled, inferior fruit of Begonia. Indeed, all the flowers had an imperfect appearance, a weak and starving aspect, as if likely to prove abortive; for they are not only small, but the stamens were few in each flower, never more than nine: in the female flower the petals vary from four to five, and the fruit was in one instance four-sided and four-winged. De Candolle, in his admirable "Memoire sur la Famille des Begoniacees" in the Annales, l.c., makes brief mention of this species as cultivated in, the garden of M. Boissier at Geneva, and refers it to a section, "Daysteles," whose character is "Flores masc. disepali, dipetali. Stamina libera, antheris oblongis, filamento longioribus. Fl. fem. lobis tribus, aequalibus. Styli tres, liberi, bifidi, a basi usque ad apicem ramorum undique papillosi, ramis erectis linearibus. Placenta integrae. Capsula subaequaliter trialata." Description: Stem, in our plant, not more than a span high, glabrous, as are the leaves, which are from three to five inches long, long-petioled, unequally cordate, shortly acuminate, sinuate at the margin with small, sharp angles or lobes, and serrated, slightly pilose; upper side dark coppery-green, beneath deep rose-red, especially upon the veins. Stipules half an inch long, membranaceous, pale rose-color, deciduous, ovato-acuminate. Peduncles longer than the leaves, twice dichotomous. Flowers white, small. Male flowers with four, spreading sepals, two oval, and two very small linear ones. Stamens nine. Female flowers larger. Sepals four to five, equal, oblong-oval, spreading. Capsule with two large and one small and very narrow wing.
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Possibly a cultivar?
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. carrieae
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
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