Species
B. balmisiana var. mitellifolia
See B. balmisiana var. balmisiana
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. balmisiana var. mitellifolia
- Form Variety
- var. mitellifolia
- Author
- A. de Candolle, Prodr.
- Publication Date
- 1864
- Place
- Mexico, Michoacan
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- America
- Section
- Quadriperigonia
- Chr 2n
- 42
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. balmisiana var. balmisiana, Balmis, Demostr. :338, pl. 2. 1794.
- Reference
- Prodr. 15(1):308. 1864. — Burt-Utley & McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 3:659-60. 2001.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Revue Horticole, Annee 83 (1911)
Plant
- Description
- Revue Horticole, Annee 83 (1911) B. balmisiana var. mitellifolia: Among the many seeds and bulbs sent from around Puebla and Morelea by Brother Arsene, former secretary of Mr. Lamy de la Chapelle, was the bulb of a curious Begonia that we believe to be rare in cultures, even in botanical gardens. The plant presents an inflorescence in a cluster or panicle slender, terminal, well detached from the leaf part and of rather ornamental aspect; we give below a short description: As can be seen in the figure opposite (Fig. 13), each flower bears, at the point of insertion of its peduncle on the stem, an agglomeration of small granuliform bulblets, of tawny color and the size of a hat 'pin. These bulblets, which are also seen at the upper leaves, are also observed in another Begonia we received at the same time from Mexico, the B. martiana. There is every reason to think that these bulblets will be able to take root easily and to serve the multiplication of this species, as with B. martiana and its varieties. Carriere has brought out all the interest of these bulbils, in 1879 and in 1880, in the presence of B. martiana and B. diversifolia, of which the first is, in short, only a form. Our plant (Fig. 13) belongs to the variety mitellifolia, DC, which differs from the type in its white tommentum on the underside of the leaves. The Begonia balmisiana, type was discovered in Mexico by Ruiz; Heller collected it at Mount Foluca, and later Humboldt and Bonpland found it in the nearby Pazcuaro forest. The variety mitellifolia, which is the subject of this note, was found successively at 6,500 feet of altitude by Galeotti; near Arumbaro, by Ghiesbreght. Brother Arsene collected it, in 1909, at the altitude of 1,900 meters, near Morelia (Loma Santa Maria), from where he sent us bulbs and dry samples. - J. Daveau
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. balmisiana var. balmisiana, Balmis, Demostr. :338, pl. 2. 1794.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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