Begonia albopicta

Guinea-wing begonia

Begonia ×albopicta is an old cane-stemmed begonia introduced by the William Bull nursery in 1885, with narrow, pointed green leaves spotted silvery white. GBIF treats it as a hybrid name, and all of its GBIF records are cultivated plants in botanic gardens. It is an easy, tolerant house and greenhouse plant; the targets here come from cane-begonia practice and a regional climate estimate for south-eastern Brazil, not from wild sites.

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

No wild habitat is documented. Its presumed Brazilian parentage points to Atlantic Forest understorey and forest edges, where cane begonias grow in bright shade on moist, well-drained soil.

No wild elevation is recorded; the measured climate uses a fallback point at about 580 m in south-eastern Brazil.

Brazil Southeast

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.