Species
B. rubricaulis var. rubricaulis
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. rubricaulis var. rubricaulis
- Form Variety
- var. rubricaulis
- Author
- W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
- Publication Date
- 1844
- Place
- Jujuy, Tucuman, Argentina
- Country
- Argentina
- Region
- America
- Section
- Eupetalum
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Synonyms and Comments
- octopetala auct. non l'Héritier: Grisebach, Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen, 19:148. 1874. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5:85. 1941.
- Reference
- Bot. Mag. 70:pl. 4131. 1844— L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5:84-7,pl. 2. 1941..; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 70 = ser. 2, v. 17, 1844 B. rubricaulis: Our stoves are now becoming extremely rich in the plants of this highly ornamental genus of plants; but it is to be regretted that so many are introduced to our gardens, without any record of their native countries. Such is the case of the present species, which we have received from the excellent Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Gardens, without name or clue to its origin. I find no description that will agree with it, and have, therefore, given it an appellation significant of the fine red color of the flower-stalks, which together with the glossy leaves, and large rose-colored and white flowers, renders the species peculiarly worthy of cultivation. It is in perfection during the summer and autumnal months. Description: Leaves few, the short, fine red petioles rising directly out of the earth, of an obliquely ovate form, from four to six inches long, slightly hairy, full and bright green, wrinkled, as it were, on the surface from the tightness of the reticulated veins; the margins undulate, sinuato-lobate and everywhere closely serrated and ciliated; the base deeply two-lobed; the lobes rounded, approximated, and the inner edge of one lapping over that of the other. Scapes rising from among the leaves, greatly longer than the leaves, tapering upwards, hairy, full and bright red, above paniculato-ramose, with several large handsome flowers. Peduncles and pedicels deep red, bracteated; bracts scariose, loose, and soon deciduous, broad oval. Male flowers rather lager than the female: each with five petals, of which two are red, blush-colored, suffused with a deeper tinge; the three others are cream color, scarcely tinged with blush. Stamens and stigmas yellow. Fruit triquetrous, deep red; two of the angles with very short margins or wings; of the third, the angle is produced into a much elongated, somewhat triangular, obtuse wing, a little curved upwards.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
octopetala auct. non l'Héritier: Grisebach, Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen, 19:148. 1874. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5:85. 1941.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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