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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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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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