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With over 2000 accepted species and new discoveries made every year, Begonia is one of the largest and most diverse flowering plant genera on Earth. Combine that rich natural history with thousands of hybrids created across more than 150 years of cultivation, and you get a group of plants with staggering variety.

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B. ‘Needham’

No. 221 - B. 'Needham.' This is a star rhizomatous -begonia developed by Percy I. Merry in 1953 by crossing B. kenworthyi with one of his earlier cultivars, B. 'Beatrice Haddrell'. It has leaves of dark green irregularly mottled with light green, and light green depressed veins. The underneath is dark red and the edges are serrate and hairy. The pink flowers follow the B. kenworthyi pattern and are in panicles that stand two to three feet above the foliage. This was first shown at the Harvest Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and has taken its place with B. 'Beatrice Haddrell' as a popular entrant in shows, ever since.
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Classification: Cultivar
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Origin: America, USA
Originator: Percy I. Merry
Date of Origin: 1953

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