Begonia ferruginea
A shrub-like, cane-stemmed begonia of the high Andes of Colombia and north-western Venezuela, most common in the cold high-Andean forest and shrubland of Cundinamarca and Boyacá. It is a true cool-grower from around 2,500–3,600 m, with red stems and red flower buds noted on herbarium labels. It needs cool days, cold nights and moist air, and dislikes heat.
Where it grows wild
High-Andean forest (bosque altoandino), including relict and secondary forest, forest edges, shrubland (arbustal) and rocky areas with forest fragments. It often grows in disturbed and regrowing vegetation rather than only in deep forest.
GBIF records with altitude run from about 2,000 to 3,650 m, with a median of about 2,950 m.
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