Begonia amphioxus
€9 – €15 · Coming soon
Narrow lance-shaped leaves, pointed at both ends, pale green flecked with crimson and edged in red. It is an equatorial understorey species and will not cope in a room: it wants a terrarium, a cabinet or a greenhouse, where humidity never drops. In exchange it stays small and carries a pattern no hybrid reproduces.
Care sheet
- Light
- Medium indirect light, never direct sun
- Humidity
- 75-90%
- Temperature
- 20-26°C
- Watering
- Substrate always moist, never soaked. Soft water, from below.
- Substrate
- 60% sphagnum · 30% perlite · 10% bark
- Propagation
- Stem cutting taken below the node
How to propagate it
- Cut a stem just below a node
- Remove the lowest leaf
- Push into long-fibre sphagnum, moist and squeezed out
- Close in a clear box at 90% humidity
- Roots in 3-4 weeks, pot up past 3 cm
Shipping and guarantee
Shipped in insulated packaging, leaving on Mondays and Tuesdays. 30-day establishment guarantee. Home nursery in Ferrara, Italy; collection by appointment.