Begonia dregei
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Begonia dregei, Otto & Dietr. (B. caffra Meisn. B. parvifolia, Grab. B. reniformis, Hort.). Glabrous: sts. succulent, annual, 1-3 ft. high: from a Footstalk a fleshy irregular tuber: Lvs. thin, small, oblique-ovate, green, deeply serrated, reddish on the underside: fls. white, small, profuse. Cape of Good Hope. B.M. 3720. —Received at Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh in 1836 from Berlin. A useful free-flowering greenhouse plant.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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