Species
B. tenera var. thwaitesii
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. tenera var. thwaitesii
- Form Variety
- var. thwaitesii
- Author
- A. H. M. Jayasuriya in M. D. Dassanayake & F. R. Fosberg, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon
- Publication Date
- 1983
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Reichenheimia
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Synonyms and Comments
- thwaitesii W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4692. 1 853. ; zeylanica Van Houtte Cat. 1855 ex Klotzsch in Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 24:205. 1856.; tenera Dryander. 1791.—A.H.M. Jayasuriya in M.D. Dassanayake & F.R. Fosberg, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4:140. 1983.
- Reference
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v .79 = ser. 3, v. 9, (1853); Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4:141. 1983.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v .79 = ser. 3, v. 9, (1853) B. tenera var. thwaitesii (as SYN. B. thwaitesi): Among the many handsome new species of this most extensive genus, I scarcely know one with more richly-colored foliage than the present, nor one that better deserves to bear the name of its discoverer, Mr. Thwaites, the present able superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, Ceylon. We are indebted to that gentleman for living plants of it, which flowered in a warm stove in June of the present year, 1852. The flowers are moderately large, white, tinged with pink; but they are quite thrown in the background by the comparatively large highly colored, coppery leaves, clothed on both surfaces with the deep red-purple velvety hairs, the edge being free from hairs. By these leaves, and by the nearly equal and short wings of the fruit, bearing a double row of hairs, the species is readily distinguished. Description: Leaves altogether radical, springing several from one point on longish petioles, which are stipulated at the base, their form is broad, cordate, scarcely unequally sided; the sinus deep, the lobes rounded, the apex acute or acuminated, the margin (not hairy) slightly lobed (especially the larger ones), and crenato-dentate: the color is rich coppery, a mixture of green and red purple, redder beneath, the upper surface frequently blotched with white. A still greater richness of color is given to both surfaces by the copious deep purple velvety hairs, which do not however extend to the edge. Scapes shorter than the petioles. Flowers sub-umbellate. Flowers moderately large, and nearly the same size in the male as in the female. Sepals four, white, tinged with pink, especially the two outer ones, which are large, more rotundate than the inner ones. Capsule subrhomboid in outline, triquetrous, marked with transverse veins; the angles furnished with wings nearly equal in size, small, rounded, and ciliated with a double row of hairs.
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
thwaitesii W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4692. 1 853. ; zeylanica Van Houtte Cat. 1855 ex Klotzsch in Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 24:205. 1856.; tenera Dryander. 1791.—A.H.M. Jayasuriya in M.D. Dassanayake & F.R. Fosberg, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4:140. 1983.
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.
As male parent
1
Female parent: B. hatacoa var. hatacoa
Culture
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