Begonia gloire de sceaux

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Read about Begonia gloire de sceaux in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Begonia gloire de sceaux (B. socotrana X B. subpellata). Fig. 506. Plant stout, half shrubby, erect, vigorous, compact, will form a plant as much as 8 ft. high in a year with good cult, and produce quantities of its large rose-colored fls. over a period of several months: Lvs. dark metallic green, thick, large, red beneath, veins red above, suborbicular, slightly oblique: fls. profuse, beautiful rose- pink, shiny, females the last fl. on the cyme. Fls. from Dec. till May. R.H. 1884:516. G.F. 7:185.—Intro. in 1885.


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