Species

B. grandis ssp. evansiana

See B. grandis ssp. grandis

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Form Variety: ssp. evansiana
Author: (Dryander) - (Andrews) Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg
Publication Date: 1939
Date of Origin: 1804
Country: China
Region: Asia
Section: Diploclinium
Chr 2n: 26
Plant Type: Tuberous
Synonyms and Comments: B. obliqua auct. non L.:Thunberg,1784; B. evansiana Andrews,1811; B. discolor Brown, R. in Aiton,1813; B. erubescens Leveille,1909; B. sinensis A.de Candolle. var. haemaloneura Franch ex Gagnepain,1919; B. bulbifera hort. ex Steudal, Nom. Bot., 1821.; B. grandis Dryander subsp. grandis Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland. 2007; B. ‘Shukaido’
Reference: (Andrews) Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:492. 1939. "grandis conta. evansiana". — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:175-6. 2007; JGSL9/08;
Article References: Beg. 3:4. Jul. 1936; Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, v. 35-36 = no. 1419-1501, 1811;
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :68. 1980; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 49 (63); Begonias, Misono 1974: 8;

Plant

Description: Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, v. 35-36 = no. 1419-1501, 1811 B. grandis ssp. Evansiana as SYN. B. Evansiana We doubt whether this plant be not a variety of Begonia grandis; it so much resembles Kaempfer's figure, that we can scarcely find any other difference than that of the leaves being less angulated, and the female flowers more cernuous. In both, these flowers are, contrary to most of the species, four-petaled and similar to the male, the stamens are mondelphous, the angle of the capsules nearly equal, and the upper surface of the leaves are covered with minute spinules. But Thunberg, in his description of the same plant, under the name of obliqua, expressly fays, the leaves are pale on the under surface; while in our plant the older leaves are on the underside entirely bright red. In the younger leaves the veins only have this color, the interstices being of a bright green. In the Botanist’s Repository it is said, that Mr. Evans's Collector first found this plant growing in the clefts of the rocks in the Island of Pulo-Pinang, in the year 1808. Mr. Donn, in his Catalogue, marks it as a native of China, and dates its introduction to this country four years earlier. That it is really cultivated in China, the drawing above referred to, under the name of Tfou Hoy Tong, leaves no room to doubt: and we believe it has been in the royal collection at Kew from about the time Mr. Donn states. It is a highly ornamental stove plant, easily propagated by cuttings, or by the bulbs which are frequently produced at the divisions of the stem. Flowers most part of the summer. Our drawing was made at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy’s, Hammersmith.
Plant Habit: Branched
Plant Height: Tall
Other Features: Bulbils in leaf axils

Lineage

38 descendants

Parents

No parentage recorded.

B. obliqua auct. non L.:Thunberg,1784; B. evansiana Andrews,1811; B. discolor Brown, R. in Aiton,1813; B. erubescens Leveille,1909; B. sinensis A.de Candolle. var. haemaloneura Franch ex Gagnepain,1919; B. bulbifera hort. ex Steudal, Nom. Bot., 1821.; B. grandis Dryander subsp. grandis Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland. 2007; B. ‘Shukaido’