People in Taiwan had always mixed up B. paulensis and B. gehrtii since Mr. Mauro had sold the gehrtii seeds as paulensis one. Both of them are located at the native at SOUTHERN AMERICA, Brazil. As the same token, to own and grow them up in the Taiwan summer times is quite hard since they really can not tolerate more than 28 degree in summer times. Fortunately, I got the paulensis from a friend and grow the sp up in a fully care condition. You can find more beautiful audlt leafs as following,
Ref: http://www.kartuz.com/pc/20234/2BEG10/Begonia+paulensis.html
Ref: http://florzinha-de-estufa.blogspot.com/2007/07/begonia-paulensis.html
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Ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gjshepherd/2900184899/
Also you can compare with one of beautiful gehrtii.
B. gehrtii
