Bitterroot Restoration

Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Begoniaceae
Genus: Begonia

Begonia is a flowering plant. It one of the ten largest angiosperm genera. The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious.

The ever flowering begonia has glossy leaves of a green or reddish coloring, fine double and not double flowers of white, pink and red colors. All begonias have unisex (male and female) flowers. They can be pollinated artificially, and then from ovary there will turn out a fruit in the form of a box with very fine seeds which can be used for cultivation of begonias.

• The tuber begonia in an underground part of a plant has tubers which are used for duplication
• The leaf begonia has no tubers, but its rhizome is thickened, it is also used at duplication
• The third group is sectional begonia. At these begonias the rhizome can not be used for duplication