B. tomentosa var. tomentosa

As B. meyeri in Curtis's botanical magazine. London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] v. 70=ser. 2: v. 17 (1844) [no. 4048-4131]: Page(s): Plate 4100, Plate 4131 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14348 Of this fine species of Begonia received from the Berlin Garden, I regret I know nothing concerning the history; nor of what country it is a native; nor can I find it anywhere described. It is given in Steudel’s “Nomenclator”, ed. 2., as of the '' Hort. Berol. '' It flowers during the spring and summer. Description: A handsome, tall-growing species, with erect, branching, stout, and almost woody stems, marked with the broad scars from the petioles of fallen leaves. Leaves large, broadly and obliquely ovate rather thick and fleshy, with an auricle on one side at base, pale green, more or less tinged with red, the margin waved and subsinuate, the whole upper and under surface and thickened petioles covered with short and compact, hoary pubescence., or woolly substance. Peduncle very long, axillary, tinged with red downy, bearing a somewhat close many-flowered panicle of large, handsome, white flowers. Male blossoms with four petals; two opposite ones large and almost orbicular, the two other small and oblong, all of them spreading. Female flowers of two rather large, spreading obovate, white petals. Germen obovate, triquetrous, pale green, the angle furnished each with a broad white wing, all of about the same size. Stamens and style and stigmas a in the Genus.
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• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Pritzelia
• Origin: America, Brazil
• Originator: Schott in Sprengel, Syst. Veg.
• Date of Origin: 1827