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Just a humble Begonia; a wax, or fibrous-rooted Begonia, I believe.
Lots of detail in the 'original' size!
This begonia is a small shrub (~1.5 m tall) -- much larger than B. involucrata, although with very similar flowers.
Refs on the web are VERY scanty, but seem to point to this as B. cooperi.
www.begonias.org/Articles/Vol68/BegoniasCostaRica.htm
fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/results.asp?lang=esp&... shows B. heydei, which looks completely different. It also shows B. onvallariodora: looks right, but it is found in Monteverde? On the basis of InBIO accessions, seems to generally be a lower-altitude sp, and those records that are comparably high altitude are elsewhere (mainly further south). Whereas B. cooperi does have 1 accession from the Monteverde area (although the data are a little sparser than I'd like for making an ID from).
www.clinchtrails.com/tag/plants/ is a blog from botanical illustrators(?) working in the area who show a sketch of one from the Monteverde area that looks right, & it's identified as B. cooperi.
Begonia on top of a wall to border this path in the winter gardens, with ivy covering the wall and Ficus benjamina providing extra height to the green wall.
Surrounded by glass hothouse walls a host of glorious begonias bloomed in a riot of colors: pinks and yellows, reds and whites, oranges and creams. Diffused sunlight traced the delicate veins, and dark, green leaves framed the velvety leaves. For gardeners and photographers alike, this is a taste of heaven.
After early summer torrential rains which did their best to drown them, followed by a hellish heat wave which sought to bake them to a crisp, these lovelies finally enjoyed a revival in the cooler days of September and some very summer-like daytime temps…
Belgium.
National Botanic Garden.
www.br.fgov.be/PUBLIC/GENERAL/index.php
Begonia × tuberhybrida
Tuberous begonias (Begonia × tuberhybrida Voss, also known as the Tuberhybrida Group or the Tuberosa Group) are a group of Begonia cultivars, regarded as some of the most spectacular of the genus.
El género begonia comprende alrededor de 1.500 especies, de las que alrededor de 150, además de casi 10.000 variedades e híbridos, se comercializan para su uso en jardinería. Son oriundas de las regiones tropicales y subtropicales de América, África y Asia.Son plantas terrestres , con tallos acuosos, algunas de porte semi arbustivo o incluso pequeñas.
Algunas especies de begonias se cultivan por su atractivo follaje más que por sus flores:son muy hermosa
Begonia formosana (Hayata) Masam., 1961
木蘭綱 Class Magnoliopsida
菫菜目 Order Violales
秋海棠科 Family Begoniaceae
秋海棠屬 Genus Begonia
Begonia "Dragon Wing" Red. Бегония "Крыло дракона" красная
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Ref.: PICT2435