B. gracilis var. diversifolia

Gartenflora, Bd.31, (1882) B. gracilis var. Diversifolia: A. DC. - (DC prodr., XV, 310. - B. diversifolia Graham in Edinburgh, phil jour, 1829, page 183. - Bot., Tab., 2966). - The English captain Veitch brought tubers of this begonia in 1829 from Mexico to Edinburgh, where this begonia came to bloom in the same year in the garden of Mr. Neil and described by Graham as Begonia diversifolia, as also depicted in Botanical Magazine. Alphonse De Candolle draws this form, which is characterized by the fact that it is glaucous and only occasionally at the leaf margin with few hairs, - likewise also B. Martiana Lk., And Otto (IC Pl., Scarce P. 49, tab. 45) as oppposed to B. gracilis Knth., Which possesses numerous hairs in relation to the stems and leaves. Swellings in the leaf axils due to the bulb buds, by which they multiply, as shown in our picture. The stems of B. gracilis generally remain clean; I have not yet seen such crafted specimens, as the reduced representation of the whole plant shows after a sketch made in Haage and Schmidt's establishment. In winter, the plant is completely dormant, the tubers are wintered in the cold house and do not grow during the winter, until the knolls are sprouted in the spring. Then you take them out of the mother pot and transplant them to 3-5 in a loose nutritious soil, with compost and sand and a small amount of soil. The shape of the leaves changes from the unevenly oval to half heart-shaped, but always they are pointed. The flowers are already pink, rather big. Serves the culture in the pot in the room or cold house during the summer, or to plant on groups in the open country, but where you have to take care for a loose soil. A half-shady location is the best with the culture in the pot as well as outdoors.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Tuberous
• Botanical Section: Quadriperigonia
• Origin: America, Mexico
• Originator: A. de Candolle, Prodr.
• Date of Origin: 1864