Species
B. chitoensis
See B. formosana var. chitoensis
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. chitoensis
- Author
- Tang-Shui Liu & Ming-Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan
- Publication Date
- 1977
- Place
- Taiwan
- Habitat
- Moist forest floors or at forest margins between 360-2200m altitude
- Country
- Taiwan
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 38
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: after the type location; B. formosana (Hayata) var. chitoensis (T.S.Liu & M.J.Lai) S.S.Ying;
- Reference
- Fl. Taiwan 3:793, pl. 820. 1977. — Yu-Min Shui, Ching-I Peng & Cheng-Yih Wu, Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 43:320. 2002. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:167. 2007; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 56, 2018;
- Photo References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 56, 2018; The Begonian, Jan-Feb, 2004
Plant
- Stem Type
- Erect
Lineage
4 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: after the type location; B. formosana (Hayata) var. chitoensis (T.S.Liu & M.J.Lai) S.S.Ying;
Descendants
4 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. deliciosa
As male parent
3
Female parent: B. ‘Red Pearl’
Female parent: B. ‘Red Pearl’
Female parent: B. ‘Red Pearl’
Culture
- Comments
- Considered a cold hardy begonia as per John Boggan and his experience in his Washington DC garden.