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Begonia salaziensis

A woody, shrubby begonia up to about 2.4 m tall from the humid mountain forests of Réunion and Mauritius, with asymmetric oval leaves and clusters of white flowers. It is critically endangered on Mauritius but still widely recorded on Réunion, and in cultivation it wants mild, humid, shaded conditions and a rich but free-draining soil.

Begonia salaziensis
Photo: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

The understorey of humid tropical and cloud forest on mountain slopes, in humus-rich soil, including forest path edges, wet forest of Calophyllum and Myrtaceae around the Bassin Blanc crater on Mauritius, and cloud forest with Dombeya and Weinmannia above Plaine des Palmistes on Réunion.

GBIF records with an elevation run from about 120 to 1375 m, with a median of about 780 m.

RéunionMauritius

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC0 licence, unmodified.