642 ID wild plant Begonia

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Sam Kuzhalanattu

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Feb 27, 2025, 1:08:53 PMFeb 27
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Please ID wild plant, kind regards, Sam.
Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 1500fsl
Flower date: 24DEC2024, 04.35pm
Habitat: wild moisture evergreen sloppy canopy alpine
Plant habit: epiphytic small branched shrub, obliquely, weak fleshy hairy cylindrical purplish stem 09mm base diameter, perennial
Height: 01 feet
Leaves: dicot alternate elliptic acute leathery smooth glossy fleshy; tamarind tasted, size upto: 10×6cm
Flower: axillary spike inflorescence, 04 petals, size:10x5mm, white, non fragrant
Fruit: capsule green into purple to brown ovoid triwinged size: 15x8mm
Seed:
Camera: CANON EOS1500D +FL10x

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Mar 11, 2025, 7:03:22 AMMar 11
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Thanks a lot, Madhavi ji

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 16:25, Madhavi Sreenath <msre...@rbge.org.uk> wrote:
Hello, 

This Begonia malabarica Lam! 

Cheers,
Madhavi 

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Sam Kuzhalanattu

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Mar 11, 2025, 12:01:37 PMMar 11
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Dear Madhavi ji,
Yes it is B. malabarica, thank you very much for ID my plant.
Kind regards, Sam. 
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