These are gorgeous! Is Cherry Blossom a wax begonia, and do you know a source for this one?

D.

Yes, 'Cherry Blossom' is a semperflorens (wax begonia). I'd check with eBay, Taylor Greenhouse, Accents for Home and Garden, and maybe Logee's for this. I find it locally every year but decided to propagate it this year instead of treating it as an annual.

HI!!!!
I think I just saw one of my NOID rexies in your photos. I received it as a 'bonus' form GHW (for waiting so long to get my order perhaps!)
It's either Georgia Tasker or Green Dreams. Any chance of a whole plant shot of either of those?

Right now B. versicolor is putting out babies on the top of the leaf

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What a treat! Great photos! Thank you for posting these. I will try to get a few together.

I went to a friends house and off in the corner there was a big begonia - I asked her if I could have a cutting off her begonia plant - she replied "what begonia plant?" She didn't know it was a begonia. She gave me cuttings - it's doing quite well.

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Nothing for some of you, but great for me!!! :)

I'm not sure, Abs, but I think the begonia you have is Coralina de Lucerna. It's an older one that gets a lot of us hooked.LOL It was my first begonia too. What say you, Butch? I'll post more pictures here shortly, can't today. I have company coming for lunch and no desert. Anita

Hmmm, I told tomatolover that I thought it was Lucerna earlier but now I'm not so sure (leaves look a little rounded). Anita, your picture on the other thread (back on the bandwagon thread - begonias by the back porch) looks like Lucerna.

Hcmcdole when I sent you pictures before in help to
identify they were the OLD leaves - these are all new
leaves and they really look completely different...

It's a cutie, isn't it? I'll take some better pics... I'm
thrilled the way it's starting to look like a real plant
not just a stick with a leaf!

Someone on the other end of the building has been eyeballing
it. She has been wanting to take cuttings off it. I keep
telling her it's just a cutting itself right now! If it
disappears I'll know where it went!

Hey Ab,

It could still be Lucerna (I just don't remember the new leaves on mine looking rounded but maybe they do). Anyway it looks like yours is coming along nicely.

I guess you will have to share a cutting with the office admirer before the whole plant goes missing. That is how we got ours - as a cutting from work almost 35 years ago.

Yep, that's Lucerna by the back porch. Here are the leaves, some old and some new. You're right about the shape, they're angular not rounded. Mine aren't green because they are growing 2" from a four bulb grow light fixture and they think it's sun. Also, check out my curtii I grew from seed. The stipules are so fascinating, and the leaves are pretty cool too. Anita
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I gave away a bunch of Dragon Wings to folks at work - they
did what they did - most just left it in the tiny pot. Anyway
the housekeeper has taken to making cuttings of them... so
here's one of her cuttings (still in the water)...
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I usually kill 'houseplants' right off the bat, so I'm
pretty happy with what I have here.

Pics. are really nice and eye catching.

Lisa11

eye love begonias

Sorry I didn't respond earlier to your reply. I love your versicolor (one day I will find one) but I have Wanda which is supposed to be very similar. As for Georgia Tasker and Green Dreams I just uploaded the best pictures I could find of them. The problem with a lot of my pictures is I don't name them at times other than begonia or pix so it is difficult going through 50,000+ pictures (digital is great but at times it is overwhelming).

Anyway here is a couple of pictures if I can add them here.

Green Dreams under fluorescent:

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Georgia Tasker

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I'm pretty sure mine is 'Georgia Tasker' based on the leaf shape of your photo. Great to have an ID finally! Thanks for posting the photos for me! How large does yours get? I have mine in a 14" salad bowl terrarium, just in it's pot still but I'm thinking of permanently planting it in there.
I have yet to be able to propagate it from leaf. It just seems to wilt before it can root.

Here are some great finds I got yesterday for around $4.00 each. I once had B. lucerna 'Sophe Cecile' before, but it got neglected after I had to move it to keep my oldest son (baby at the time) from eating it.

B. lucerna 'Sophe Cecile'
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B. partita
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B. bipinnatifida
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I have always been a fan of the Angel Wing Begonias, but I like some of the other types too.

ok here is some begonias and pepperomias

Thanks for the beautiful begonia photos. I had been spelling B. cachuma wrong for way too long and realized the last posting was 2009. Maybe I'm just a little lost or no one is posting.

I have one called Eldora which is very similar to Lucerna. Eldora has a slightly different growth pattern from Lucerna. The leaves have a more rounded shape, too. But they do look very much alike.