Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Mongabay
Jan 7, 2022, 10:41 am220 pts
When researchers found a begonia plant twice as tall as a person, they knew they had something extraordinary. Of the more than 2,000 known begonia species, most are the size of large herbs or small shrubs. In late 2020, during surveys in Mêdog county in southern Tibet, Daike Tian and his colleagues from the…

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