B. cucullata var. cucullata

Gartenflora, Bd.31, (1882) Begonia semperflorens Lk. Et Otto. Fl. roseo. Begoniaceae. The B. semperflorens arrived with the Sello living plants shipped Konigl. garden in Berlin. In 1823, Link and Otto in the (Icones plantarum rariorum horti bot. Berolinensis tab. 5) described this species. Soon afterwards it also was published in Bot. Cab. Tab. 1439 and in 1829 by WJ Hooker (An illustration in Botanical Magazine tab. 2920) but quotes only Loddige's picture. B. semperflorens is a well-known subshrub for the hothouse and room windows of 1-1 ½ feet high, with roundish oblong leaves, at the base rounded or almost heart-shaped slightly serrated leaves and white flowers, which appear in abundance throughout the summer until the late autumn, The Varietal with rose-red flowers, which we reproduce in large reduction, is full-flowered and has pink flowers. The tablet cited above in the Bot. Magazine also depicts this begonia with rose-pink flowers.; Flora of Costa Rica. Begoniaceae. by Paul C. Standley. Chicago 1937. v. 18: pt. 2 (1937): Page 737-48 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747 Stems stout, erect, leafy, glabrous; stipules large, foliaceous; leaves petiolate, the blades obliquely ovate, about 7 cm. long, palmately 6-7-nerved, obtuse, inflexed at the base, crenulate; peduncles few-flowered, glabrous; pistillate flowers 5-lobate, white or pinkish; capsule 2.5-3 cm. long, the largest wing ovate-acute, curved upward, the other wings almost obsolete; Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v. 13: pt. 4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Perennial herb, caulescent, stoloniferous, glabrous, 1-10 dm. high. Leaves slightly asymmetric, broadly ovate with the base truncate and usually in rolled, obtuse, palminerved, to 8 cm. long, 7 cm. wide, crenate-serrate, ciliate, petioles 25 mm. long, stipules persistent, oblong, obtuse, 2-3 cm. long. Cymes axillary, few flowered, peduncle 3-5 cm. long. Bracts persistent, ovate, serrulate, 5 mm. long. Pedicels slender. Staminate tepals 4, 8-13 mm. long, the outer ones suborbicular, the inner smaller and narrowly obovate. Stamens free, numerous, filaments short, anthers linear. Pistillate. tepals 4- 5, obovate. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate. Capsule 24--30 mm. long, unequally 3-winged, the largest wing triangular, subacute, seeds acute in the typical variety.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Semperflorens
• Botanical Section: Ephemera
• Origin: America, Brazil & Bolivia
• Originator: Willdenow, Sp. Pl.
• Date of Origin: 1805