American Begonia Society

The seed fund is a service to members only. It is a privilege of your membership.

ATTENTION: Please note new address.
Send orders, comments and suggestions to:
Dean Turney
467 Fulvia Street
Encinitas, Ca. 92024
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Please self pollinate your species begonias and collect seeds to send to the seed fund. When sending seeds wrap them carefully in a dry paper packet folded on all four sides and sealed with tape. It is important that the packet is folded on all four sides so that the seeds will not escape and get stuck in the sealing tape. Do not use plastic envelopes because the seeds adhere to the plastic. Glassine envelopes can be used if the open side is folded twice before sealing.

Read Michael Ludwig's Seed Growing and Seed Creating articles for tips and how-to.

The featured seeds described below were contributed by Thelma O’Reilly, Ingeborg Foo, and Beatrice Huckriede.

Species: ($1.50 per packet)

B. carrieae
B. dipetala
B. kenworthyae
B. peltata
B. sericoneura
U #492

Hybrid and cultivars: ($0.50 per packet)

Vanderveldiana, hybrid

B. carrieae Ziesenhenne (Sect. Gireoudia) [Mexico]. Branching rhizomes; large, lime green, rugose, lobed leaves; white blossoms in late winter to early spring.

B. dipetala Graham [India] (Sect. Haagea) The name means two petalled. Two feet tall. Thick stemmed, rigidly erect, brown rarely branched. Leaves medium, ovate-pointed, doubly toothed, green with scattered bristly hairs, red beneath. Large, soft white to pink fragrant flowers in pendulous clusters. Collected in the Bombay area; has annual rainfall over 80 inches from to October; sandy loam; temp. 68ºF--86ºF.

B. kenworthyae Ziesenhenne [Mexico] (Sect. Gireoudia). Erect succulent green thick rhizome to 6 in.; 12" X 8" leaves, unequally sharply lobed, basally cordate, serrate, red-ciliate, fleshy, slate grey, green veins, covered with a grey bloom; white flowers in many flowered cymes; winter.

B. peltata Otto & Dietrich var. peltata,[Mexico, Guatemala] (Sect. Gireoudia) Stems 1-3 feet, succulent, hairy; leaves peltate, ovate, acuminate, green with white felting above; flowers white on long erect peduncles in winter.

B. sericoneura Liebmann [Honduras] (Sect. Gireoudia) (Syn. hypolipara Sandwith) Rhizome trunk-like non-ramified; leaves basifixed cordate, dull green, thick, soft, oval, entire to 20 inches; prominent veins and reddish hairs; profuse large white flowers in spring.

U #492 (possibly B. bracteosa A. de Candolle [peru] (Sect. Cyathocnemis) This unidentified begonia was collected in Peru by Maureen O’Reilly. Large attractive pink flowers. Thelma O’Reilly suggests planting soon for best result.

Packets of seeds of species and U numbers are $1.50. All packets of cultivars (including open pollinated) seeds are 50¢ per packet. Very rare seeds and newly collected seeds will be $2.00 or more per packet. California residents please add 7.75 % sales tax. All orders must be accompanied by check or money order, payable in US funds ONLY, to The Clayton M. Kelly Seed Fund.

Please send your order with payment to:
AMERICAN BEGONIA SOCIETY
CLAYTON M. KELLY SEED FUND
Dean Turney
467 Fulvia Street,
Encinitas, CA 92024

DISCLAIMER: The seeds distributed by the seed fund are identified as received from the donors. The species names (in italics) reported here are correct based on the latest information from BEGONIACEAE, Ed. 2; Golding, and Wasshausen. Hybrid names are made consistent with the “ABS Check List of Begonia Hybrids” edited by Howard Berg dated 9/13/2005.

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