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Begonia Species Name?

21 years ago

Can anyone give me the species name of this Begonia? It has white flowers when it blooms. Thanks. I posted this in the Tropicals forum where I was figuring out how to get the picture size less than 60Kb before I thought to see if there was a begonia forum. Still new here.

ilima

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hc mcdole
21 years ago
I think it is maculata.

Here is a link that might be useful: cane begonias at Palm Hammock
mingtea
21 years ago
ditto. B. maculata var. wightii.

-ming
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ilima
Original Author
21 years ago
Thanks! hcmcdole and mingtea much appreciated.

ilima
greenelbows1
21 years ago
Elizabeth said some months ago that the 'wightii' part of that name is invalid, and it's actually B. maculata var. maculata. Logee's lists it incorrectly as var. wightii. There's also some hybrids, I think by Cynthia Baker(?), that must have a lot of maculata in their ancestry and look a lot like it.

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