{"id":413,"date":"2026-09-08T18:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:36:53","slug":"begonia-mysteries-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Begonia Mysteries #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-c450f3cc wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_198f7-768x1024-1.jpg ,https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_198f7.jpg 780w, https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_198f7.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_198f7-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-414\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" title=\"post_1788850011_198f7\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been growing this Begonia that is supposedly from Northern Vietnam for the past year. I was really surprised to see how strange it is. It&#8217;s upright rhizomatous but has an extremely thin stem, barely big enough to hold the leaves up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early last month it started to show flowers, however not a single one has opened since then, dropping eventually after a week or so. This could be a condition thing but I think that&#8217;s unlikely. I believe it is probably a natural hybrid that is now sterile. It definitely has a similar look to species like Begonia pengii (but not peltate) which I&#8217;ve seen it mislabeled multiple times now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, what the other parent could be to produce such a thin stem is beyond me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-7809f692 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_ff681-768x1024-1.jpg ,https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_ff681.jpg 780w, https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_ff681.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_ff681-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-415\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" title=\"post_1788850011_ff681\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-76edd48c wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_89df4-471x1024.jpg ,https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_89df4.jpg 780w, https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_89df4.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/post_1788850011_89df4-471x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-416\" width=\"552\" height=\"1200\" title=\"post_1788850011_89df4\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been growing this Begonia that is supposedly from Northern Vietnam for the past year. I was really surprised to see how strange it is. It&#8217;s upright rhizomatous but has an extremely thin stem, barely big enough to hold the leaves up. Early last month it started to show flowers, however not a single one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"begoniaweirdo.com","author_link":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I&#8217;ve been growing this Begonia that is supposedly from Northern Vietnam for the past year. I was really surprised to see how strange it is. It&#8217;s upright rhizomatous but has an extremely thin stem, barely big enough to hold the leaves up. Early last month it started to show flowers, however not a single one&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/begoniaweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}