My pleasure! :+)

The shadows are making this leaf look weird, so ignore that, but it's the size of it that's blowing me away!

Wow crazy!

has anybody seen or have info on Begonia darthvaderiana
https://www.google.com/search?...


image is from facebook by Daniel Hinkley past director of Heronswood

I haven't but wow what a plant!!!

Oh wow! How cool is that! Never seen a begonia like that before.

Now I need to find that one!

I know me too AND I'm not wanting to start a new pot of plants lol! Yes I will!

Anyone else notice the species name? darthvaderiana

Darth-vader-iana

I did, and that is surely a draw for me

there is a leaf cutting for sale on ebay
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.htm...

Oh my - really??? $90 for a leaf? I wouldn't do that even if I could

My go to source for begonia is https://www.violetbarn.com/sto... but they don't have it

i agree
not sure i would even pay that for a full size plant considering not knowing what they need to survive

Exactly! And it is being shipped from Europe, how do they keep a leaf viable for that long? A plant barely but a leaf, I doubt it...AND I bet many people will be tempted because it is such an amazing looking plant

i can only imagine how nice it would look surrounded by one of the silver B's
like my chayo, for which we do not have a database entry

Strever that is pretty!! If you ask the moderator to create an entry for it I think they will make it happen!
@threegardeners do you know how @strever can add his Begonia Chayo to the database?
Thanks in advance

If you go to the database home page there will be a place to add an entry. Sorry I can't be more helpful, the site doesn't play nice on my phone...

Thanks Lee Anne, I couldn't remember how to do that

This stem got broken in a storm, so I stuck it in the ground next to a piece of cardboard tube (Sunsetter awning, comes in great cardboard tubes) where I dump organic matter to compost. It has taken root & is starting to bloom. It looked dehydrated & suicidal for the first couple weeks, but surprisingly, only lost a couple leaves before it started to look perky again.

B. coccinea, this stem was/is 3 feet tall, counting the 5-6 inches that were submerged.

Here is my dark leafed Begonia I placed the put inside a very large pot that holds a Boston fern and a asparagus fern, just noticed in my profile pic that pot is in the background... What I did is staked up the asparagus fern to a 5 foot tall stake, and planted the Boston fern at the base
Close up of begonia

Full pot pic