Begonia giganticaulis
The tallest begonia known in Asia: an evergreen, cane-like perennial up to about 4 m tall, with stems up to 12 cm thick at the base. It grows on forested stream banks and valley slopes in Mêdog, southern Tibet, at 450–1400 m. It belongs to section Platycentrum and is dioecious, so separate male and female plants are needed for seed. It wants a large, humid, warm-temperate to subtropical setting with a cooler, drier winter.
Where it grows wild
It grows on slopes under forest along streams and at the water's edge in river valleys. The type locality is on the Baimu Xiri River near Beibeng. Mêdog lies in the deep, humid Yarlung Tsangpo valley, a subtropical pocket sheltered by high mountains within otherwise alpine Tibet. The plant has thick, reddish-brown, white-spotted stems with swollen nodes up to 7 cm thick and branches heavily in the upper part.
450–1400 m. The dated type collections are at 1110–1320 m, and older paratypes at 700–1200 m.
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