Red and White Begonia (Begonia albococcinea)
Description
Begonia albococcinea is a plant species of the family Begoniaceae . This begonia comes from India ( Karnataka , Kerala , Tamil Nadu ). The species is part of the Reichenheimia section ; it was described in 1845 by the British botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) and the specific epithet , albococcinea , means "white and red", with reference to two-colored flowers
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cucurbitales
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Family: Begoniaceae
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Genus: Begonia
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