Begonia palmata
A rhizomatous begonia with large, palmately lobed leaves, growing 20–90 cm tall in moist, shaded places from the eastern Himalaya across southern China and Taiwan to Indochina. It is a plant of damp forest edges, trailsides and stream banks at mostly middle elevations, so it wants steady moisture, shade and a mild, subtropical rather than steamy climate.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial herb of moist places: along streams, damp forest trails, shaded roadside banks and forest edges in evergreen and secondary forest, sometimes on rocks. Herbarium labels from Myanmar, China and Taiwan repeatedly note trailsides, soil slopes, wet places and semi-shade. It spreads by stout rhizomes.
Recorded from 130 m to 2750 m, median 1500 m (134 records); the literature gives about 100–3200 m. Most plants grow in the submontane to lower montane belt.
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