Around, about, near, approximately

Dropping off or shedding at an early stage of development. Usually applied to some Begonia stipules that fall off after leaf matures, or some bracts on an inflorescence

The outer perianth whorl, usually green; the collective term for all of the sepals of one flower View Illustration

Bell-shaped

Having wood-like jointed stems similar to bamboo. Ex. B. maculata, B. ‘Flamingo Queen’, B. ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’

Located at the top of a pillar or column

Shaped like a head

A dry fruit that develops from two or more united carpels

The reproductive parts of the female flower. Ovule-bearing structure, the basic unit of the female element of a flower

Regarding stipule persistence, when stipules fall off early as the leaf matures

Tall-pointed, excessively acuminated, so the point is long and weak, like the tail of an animal

A leaf tip that has a blunt end on a long, narrow, fine pointed tail-like tip

The stem of a plant, especially a woody one; also used to mean a rootstock, or a basal stem structure or storage organ (like a tuber) from which new growth arises

Obvious upright stems above ground

Pertaining to the stem; placed on the stem

Small membranous scales or bract

The basal part of an ovule where it is attached to the funiculus (stalk bearing the ovule)

Papery thin and opaque texture

Having changeable color or luster

A hybrid, winter-blooming tuberous group of begonias, derived from crosses with B. socotrana and B. dregei

An organelle present in plant cells that contains chlorophyll and other photosynthetic pigments

Disease resulting in yellowing or blanching of green leaves

Microscopic bodies in cells carrying the hereditary material

A scar left by the fall of a leaf or other organ

Fringed with a row of fine hairs; a leaf margin with a fringe of small hair along the entire edge, eyelash-like

Minutely ciliate

A helicoid cyme. An inflorescence which grows one lateral side only at each dichotomous division, creating a curve

Approximating a circle in shape

The placement of a plant and/or plant group in a category

Club shaped, gradually thickening upwards from a very tapered base

A leaf with deep lobes or incisions that indent one third to two thirds of the way from the margin to the leaf radius or umbo

Genetically identical descendants derived asexually from a single individual; the vegetative propagation such as from cuttings or cloning

Composed of two or more parts, e.g. a leaf composed of multiple leaflets, or an inflorescence made up of multiple smaller inflorescences

A leaf separated into two or more distinct leaflets with their own individual petiole Ex. B. carolineifolia, B. thiemei

Curved inward toward the center of the lamina or tooth

Uniformly colored

United to a structure of the same kind, as one tepal to another

The portion of the stamen or tissue connecting the two pollen cells of an anther, especially when the cells are separated

Degree or texture of density, firmness

Curving outward or away from the center of the lamina or tooth

Heart-shaped, with the notch lowermost; of the base of a leaf, like the notched part of a heart

Medium thick, but with the texture and feel of soft leather

The miniature corm produced annually, and vegetatively, in leaf axils

The collective name for all of the petals of a flower View Illustration

A rib; midrib or midvein of a leaf

Seedling leaf; first single leaf or pair of leaves in the embryo of a flowering plant

Shoot that trails on the surface of soil and produces roots at intervals

Growing on the surface of the soil, such as rhizomes

A leaf margin with obtuse, or broad rounded teeth, or scallops

A leaf margin or edge that is scalloped, but the scallops are very small and fine.

A leaf margin that has a ruffled, frilled, wavy, or overlapping edge

Minutely undulating leaf edge; curled

Hooded; hood shape

Plant known only in cultivation

A form of plant originating under cultivation

Wedge-shaped, triangular and taping to a point at the base, obtriangular, Ex. B. buseyi

The tip or terminal end of a leaf blade that has a short, sharp, abrupt point

A flat-topped or rounded-topped determinate inflorescence in which the terminal flower blooms first

With flowers in a cyme

Lacks a central axis that dominates the lateral branches, unlike racemose inflorescence, where the central axis is continually growing and is the dominant central axis. Many begonias have cymose inflorescence