B. tenuifolia

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

D. Girmansyah, Bali and Lombok species of Begonia (begoniaceae): 2008 “Stem pale green, succulent, weak, erect, 2- 25 cm tall, diameter 1-4 mm, little branched, densely or sparsely hairy, hairs short, white; tuber small, c. 5 mm. Stipules caducous. Leaves oblique, distant, 1–3 or more on each stem or branchlet; petioles translucent, pale green or whitish green, densely to sparsely hairy, 0.5-10 cm long, flat or grooved above; lamina dull plain green above and whitish or pale reddish beneath; thin and soft in life, thinly papery when dried, broadly ovate, asymmetric, 1.5–8.5 x 1.2-6 cm, broad side 0.7-3.2 cm, base unequally cordate, basal lobes not overlapping, 0.3-2.3 cm long, margin minutely toothed with sparse hairs, sometimes undulate, apex blunt or rounded; venation palmate-pinnate, 4–5 pairs of veins, with another 2 in the basal lobe, plane or slightly impressed above, beneath slightly prominent, whitish green or reddish. Inflorescences terminal, reddish white, glabrous, longer than the leaves, peduncle 5-20 cm long, branched, 1–4 cm long, protandrous. Male flowers pure white to pinkish white pedicel 10-11 mm long; tepals 4, margin entire, tip rounded, outer two rounded, 7-10 x 6-7 mm, inner two narrowly oval, 7-10 x 2.5-.3 mm; stamens many, cluster globose, stalk 2 mm long; filament 0.5–0.75 mm long; anther yellow, obovate, c. 1 mm long, tip rounded, opening by slits. Female flowers white to pinkish white, pedicel 5-12 mm long, ovary pinkish white, wings 3, unequal, locules 2, placentas 2 per locule; tepals 5, white, ovate, margin entire, tip rounded, outer one bigger , 9-12 x 3-4 mm, innermost one smaller, 6-11 x 2-3 mm; styles 2, Y-shaped, styles and stigmas yellow, style 3-4 mm long, stigma spiral, 1.5-2 mm long. Fruit pinkish white or pale green, capsule 5-6 mm wings 3, unequal, larger wing 3-7 mm wide, smaller two 2-3 mm wide. Seeds brown, ellipsoid to oblong, 0.3-3.5 mm long, collar cell a half or 3/4 the seed length.”