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International Database of the BEGONIACEAE
International Database of the BEGONIACEAE
This database, compiled
and maintained by Ross Bolwell, is
completely free to use and is suited to
begonia growers, collectors, breeders,
researchers and anyone interested in these
amazing plants. In fact any plant lover can
find a lot to interest them. The purpose of
this database is to provide a searchable
database of information and photographs of
begonia species and cultivars. Included is
information on American Begonia Society
(ABS) registered cultivars as well as
unidentified species numbered plants (U###).
This is a “wiki” style database where we
encourage input from you to maintain
accuracy, update information, add new
plants, remove incorrect information and
supply photographs.
You click
on “Find" as shown above. This
returns the following screen:
If you
know the plant name or part of the plant
name you enter that in the box to the right
of “Plant Name” as shown above. Then
click on “Find Records” and you will
get a set of one or more records that meet
your request. If there is no match, nothing
will be returned. If you need to search on
other information, then click on “Advanced
Search” as
shown above. The following screen will
appear:
Here, you
can enter data into one or more fields – say
you know the begonia is a rex and it was
bred by me – you would enter “rex” into the
box on the right of “Plant Type” and
“bolwell” into the box on the right of “Originator”.
You would also click in the little circle
before the line that states “Find records if
all fields match”, otherwise you will get a
returned set of records with all the rex
type begonias in the database (a couple of
thousand at least) as well as all of the
begonias I have bred (a few hundred) which
is not what you want. The entry is shown in
the screen below:
Now click
the “Find Records” tab. The resulting
“found set” is called a “Record List”
and would contain all of the records that
meet your request. These would be presented
in groups of 25 records which you can scroll
through using the “first”, “prev”, “next”
and “last” tabs. In the case demonstrated
only 19 records were found and the resulting
screen is shown below:
To sort
the records into alphabetical order, just
click on the heading “Name”
and the sort will occur. You can do this
with any heading to sort on that column.
To select
a particular begonia, just click on the
little right pointing blue arrow next to the
plant name you’ve chosen. Say you choose
B. ‘Annan Storm’, then information on
that cultivar is shown as per the screen
that follows:
You can
tab across the various headings “Plant”;
“Leaf”;
“Flower”;
“Photo”
and “Email
Us” and see
any information that might be present under
those categories. And that is all there is
to it. Try it out – and you’ll find it is a
very valuable begonia tool!
Please note:
There may be small
differences to the screen captures shown
above and what you see on your screen
because of small changes to the data and
that we now have additional tabs called “Progeny”;
“Culture”
and “Wiki”
where you can enter details and submit for
updating purposes.
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International Database of the BEGONIACEAE
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