Begonia semperflorens (Wax begonia / Begonia conchita)
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia.
Begonias were described for the first time in 1690 by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, who named them after a fellow French botanist, Michel Bégon. It was the first time a plant was named to honour another botanist, and this later became a tradition when naming a new plant. Eventually the name was set when Linnaeus used it in 1753 in his Species Plantarum.
www.bigbegoniarevival.com/charles-valin/breeding-history-...
Begonia semperflorens (Wax begonia / Begonia conchita)
In my garden. La Ceja, Colombia.
Begonias were described for the first time in 1690 by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, who named them after a fellow French botanist, Michel Bégon. It was the first time a plant was named to honour another botanist, and this later became a tradition when naming a new plant. Eventually the name was set when Linnaeus used it in 1753 in his Species Plantarum.
www.bigbegoniarevival.com/charles-valin/breeding-history-...