Plant Identification: SOLVED: Help Dinu ID this begonia?

Author Content Terry Murfreesboro, TN (Zone 7a) February 20, 2002 3:13 PM Post #23527 Dinu contributed this photo of a lovely begonia to the Plants Database - can someone tell us what species it is? http://plantsdatabase.com/showimage/2910/index.html Thanks in advance... REDROSE New Iberia, LA (Zone 9a) February 20, 2002 5:35 PM Post #214889 It is begonia and your is darker leaf and mine lighter green leaf but not really look same shape... much like same flower like mine. Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX (Zone 10a) February 21, 2002 2:03 AM Post #215168 Vols, it looks like some kind of Rex begonia. Terry Murfreesboro, TN (Zone 7a) February 21, 2002 2:21 AM Post #215179 Thanks, Cala! Dinu Mysore India (Zone 10a) February 21, 2002 5:28 AM Post #215226 I have checked in a book in the meantime and mine must be B.Cleopatra. See http://absastro.tripod.com/hpic/Cleopatra.jpg Roselaine North Vancouver, BC (Zone 8a) February 21, 2002 6:43 AM Post #215256 I was just to volunteer that info..mine has just begun blooming inside..Elaine MaVieRose High Desert, CA (Zone 8a) February 21, 2002 7:43 AM Post #215268 Dinu... ur link did not work for me, i found this site instead... http://community.webshots.com/photo/23032979/22752063rgpnDnf... edited to add another link... http://www.plantcare.com/catalog/tepPlantPage.php?PlantId=16... This message was edited Thursday, Feb 21st 3:53 AM busybee Kentwood, LA (Zone 8b) February 22, 2002 1:07 AM Post #215832 In a house plants book that I have it shows one like that and it is called B.boweri (eyelash begonia) leaves deep emerald green with black edging with stiff hairs on leaf edges and leaf stalks.Makes tiny shell pink flowers on 4-6 in. long stalks in latewinter and early spring.

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