Begonia listada
A low, spreading shrub-like begonia with velvety dark olive leaves marked by a pale central stripe and red undersides. It entered cultivation in 1961 through the American Begonia Society seed fund and was formally described by L.B. Smith and D. Wasshausen in 1981. Kew gives its native range as Paraguay, and older society accounts link it to southern Brazil. Wild data are very thin. It behaves as a subtropical forest-understory plant that likes moderate warmth, bright shade and a cooler winter, and it dislikes intense heat.
Where it grows wild
No detailed field description was found. Society and secondary accounts place it in the understory of subtropical humid forest in the Paraguay–southern Brazil–northeastern Argentina region, in filtered light on moist, humus-rich soil. Its creeping, spreading habit and hairy leaves fit a forest-floor herb of that region.
No elevation data. Subtropical Atlantic forest in eastern Paraguay and southern Brazil lies mostly at about 100–600 m, but this is not confirmed for the species.
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