Begonia involucrata
A large, fleshy, shrubby begonia from the wet mountain forests of Central America, from Guatemala to western Panama. It is common in Costa Rica along shaded stream banks, gorges and steep roadsides at about 1100 to 2150 m, and bears clusters of white flowers inside conspicuous bracts. It grows best cool and humid, like other highland Central American begonias.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it as an understory herb of lower montane wet forest and cloud forest. It grows on wet, shaded embankments above streams, in deep gorges, on steep roadbanks and hillsides, along trail edges, and sometimes on rocks in shade. It forms large colonies in deep, rich organic soil over volcanic rock and persists in disturbed forest and secondary growth.
A few collections come from as low as about 500 m on the Pacific slope.
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