#Rex begonia vine

[deadhead-greenpinky]

Couldn’t say no to this begonia, she had to come home with me. I think this reignited my love for houseplants.

[mandsleanan]

Remember how the pandemic social distancing made everyone go a little nuts?

Animal shelters were emptied, horses fresh off the track were being snatched up sight unseen for thousands of dollars, and state and national parks' traffic has surged to the point that it's harming them.

And then you have the Houseplant Hobby.

The demand for houseplants was already on the rise before COVID-19, and it shot up another 18% during the pandemic. And vendors responded by increasing prices 15%, with plans to continue to do so for at least 2021.

You see this vine? Pretty, isn't it?

Rex begonia vines (Cissus discolor) were always kind of an intermediate-level (Glasshouse Works considers them difficult) houseplant, which is what they are half the year if you live north of Zone 9. None of this has changed, except now more people want them and are willing to pay more.

When I bought my pair of vines back in 2016, they were maybe...eight bucks apiece for a 3" pot? Seven years later, they seem to average about twice that for a plant of the same size, and the 2" is eight bucks. Remember what I said about the price inflation?

While browsing live plants at a reptile expo, (Same one where we picked up Mulberry) one of the vendors had a single cutting on display for....$15. Not a starter. Not a rooted cutting. A string of vine fresh off the plant, for 15 USD.

If that seems like bullshit, it is. Look at Mulberry's stupid face to cleanse your brain:

For clarity, I don't recommend paying for the majority of cuttings, at least not beyond shipping expenses. There's always the chance they'll just fail, especially when you tack on the stress of transport. Buying cuttings is popular on Etsy, where vendors will charge you starter plant prices for each one, in addition to shipping and sometimes handling charges.

Anyway, I was so pissed off at the blatant price-gouging that instead of putting the overwinter clippings in the compost, I'm going to try to propagate them all.

I've never tried to propagate this species. We'll see how they do.

[greater-than-the-sword]

I love you shade plants I love you plants that are red and purple I love you Japanese Maple I love you ornamental plum I love you coleus I love you rex begonia I love you pieris I love you saxifrage I love you coral bells I love you croton, red cordyline, red astilbe, lobelia, red potato vine, caladia, zebrina, ornamental cabbage etc

[gkbc-is-starting-a-studyblr]

Going into the last day of spring break...

Monday will be the beginning of a packed April leading up to my last ever AP exams

Here's hoping I'm not too burnt out to get a few days of studying out of myself.

On a lighter note, I've been doing some houseplant upkeep as it is the beginning of growing season and I find cutting up & shuffling around my plants strangely relaxing. Above is a new buddy in the collection! She's a Cissus Javana, also known as a vining rex begonia despite not even being closely related to begonias. Based on a brief Google they're actually part of the Grape family. I made her a growing structure today which I think turned out really well!

[plantsareprettyneat]

plant masterlist

Al: some kind of cactus, very small

Angela: variegated smooth agave

Audy Amaryllis: golden pothos

Avin: jade pothos

Baby: variegated smooth agave

Bay: curly lipstick plant

Beluga: amaryllis (johnson's amaryllis?)

Bill: immature monstera deliciosa

Biscuit: aloe vera

Blue Spring: aloe "black gem"

Bonnie: sedum reflexum "green spruce"

Brunhelda: basket plant, TINY

Bruno: lucky bamboo

Bumble: baby rubberplant

Calamity: phalaenopsis orchid keikis

Casey: pink princess philodendron pup

Cedric: cordyline fruticosa

Cerulean: inch plant (tradescantia zebrina)

Cheese: ZZ plant

Cheezit: hardy elephant's ear (alocasia wentii)

Chespin: snow queen (?) pothos

Christopher: begonia rex

Claude: bird's nest snakeplant

Clyde: sedum something

Cobert: elephant ear colocasia

Cucumber: shamrock plant

Delilah: sweet potato vine

Dino Damage: pixie dixie ivy

Doodlebob: paper plant

Essence: pink princess philodendron

Everglow: echeveria

Everlee: thanksgiving plant

Fan: ficus elastica cutting

Fauna: hardy begonia

Félice: scindapsus "moonlight"

Frog: nerve plant (fittonia albivenis)

Fronds: arrowhead plant

Genevieve: english ivy prop

Goose: bird's nest snakeplant pup

Green: cyclamen

Harper: basket plant

Imogen Speingler: basket plant

Jack: mature arrowhead plant (leaves split into three)

Jasper: coleus "chocolate covered cherry"

Jolene: basket plant

Juicy: prickly pear cactus

The Juminos: jade plant

Junior: jade plant "lemon and lime"

Ladybug: heartleaf philodendron

Leviathan: jade pothos cutting

Lex: coleus "french quarter"

Lincoln: aloe vera

Lulu: peace lily pup

Maple: variegated umbrella plant

Marmoset: baby's tears (soleirolia soleirolii)

Marnie: red-edged dracaena

Marvin: domestic shorthair "gray tabby"

Mercury: cordyline fruticosa prop

Mildred: elephant ear colocasia pup

Minerals: black sweet potato vine

Mumford: feather cactus (mammillaria plumosa)

Mystery Man?: I have no clue, this is literally a seed that was in the potting mix and sprouted in Satin's pot

Oliver: elephant ear colocasia

Oscar: prickly pear cactus

Patricia: green onion

Pearl: hoya wayetti

Peggy: coleus "wasabi"

Peter: spider plant

Petunia: mangrove lily

Peter's seedlings: some wildflower?

Pickle: mature arrowhead plant (leaves split into three and five)

Pineapples Georg: golden pothos and global green pothos

Puffy: purple sweet potato vine

Reginald: heartleaf philodendron "neon"

Rice: tradescantia "purple heart"

Satin: satin pothos

Singapore: syngonium podophyllum "bob allusion"

Spinach: mother of thousands plantlet

Spud: split-leaf philodendron

Susan: monstera adansonii

The terrarium ft. Squidly and Moona the isopods

Toby: tree dracaena

Trevor: aloe "black gem"

Turtles: green shamrock plant

Vegan: chinese evergreen cutting

Velma: asiatic dayplant

Velocity: mistletoe cactus

Velvet: tradescantia "purple heart"

Virgil: string of buttons

Wilbur: spiral croton

Wiggles: hardy alocasia (alocasia wentii)

Wind: red prayer plant

Zinnia: ZZ plant

Delaria Farm: my fiancé's garden

unnamed props:

Archive

Rosie: rosemary, deceased

Olives: purselane I grow annually from last year's seeds; currently waiting for spring to replant

[flowers-and-plants]

Cultivating a Rex Begonia Vine for Striking Indoor Foliage

[chickadeegreen]

my fastest growing baby 🌿

[similarimagery]

Some of my plants. 💕🌿

[sunbadgerplants]

Plant haul 2.17.18

Haworthia cuspidata, Rex Begonia, ‘Berry Allusion’ Arrowhead vine (Syngonium), and......some kind of compact form of Tradescantia zebrina? It was only labeled as “houseplant” and I’ve been unable to find anything about its actual name online. So, I’m just gonna call it Tradescantia zebrina...compacta????

Anyone got any insight?

[plantanarchy]

Be very proud of me though I was at a greenhouse that had fairly cheap pink princess philodendron and Rex begonia vine and I didn't buy either just to buy them because they do not spark joy

[lycanthology]

Are your plants named at all? I know a lot of people do that

YES! some of them are but sadly the ones with the most fun names died. ive got two arrowhead vines named dante and achilles (get it.. arrow.. achilles.. ha), captain begonia rex, grogu the marimo ball, chiyoh the jade plant (after the hannibal character i couldnt stop thinking ab at the time), jaws the tiger jaw (uninspired) and an unnamed spider plant and burrows tail. honorable mentions to the passed luke ivywalker and peperomia pascal

[justlightlysedated]

I've been busy all day, but here's another sneak peek for, the caring and naming of plants:

"They're gifts," Rosa replies to Maria's unspoken question. "From Michael."

"Michael?" Maria questions, and Alex sighs, long and loud when she makes a noise as she realizes who Rosa is talking about.

"As in, obviously an alien Michael?" She says voice tinged with disbelief. "It's only been three weeks since they met."

She sounds like she's asking a question. 

Rosa just snorts, "Pretty sure they're soulmates."

"He just likes my bakes and since I refuse to make him pay for being a taste tester, he started giving me, plants."

There is a moment of perfect silence, and Alex moves to another flower pot, picking up the card that came with it and rereading the information written in Michael's curly handwriting.

He can feel the conversation Maria and Rosa are having with their eyebrows and vague hand motions, but he ignores that to concentrate on the information.

Rex Begonia’s love the sun and the heat, but not directly, if keeping it in the shop, keep it near an open window, but not in direct view of the sun, and if the shop’s internal temperature goes below 60° make sure you get a heating lamp and don’t be afraid to spray water on it daily.

Alex looks back to the plant with it’s black and silver leaves and grabs the spray, letting the mist fall over the plant.

“There you go, Mr. Skellington,” he says and puts the spray back down, before moving on to the other stand he’d bought where there are four other plant pots housing four different succulents, Jack (a greenovia), Anissa (a echeveria agavoides), Luke (a selenicereus anthonyanus), and Diana (a hoya kerrii vine).

He doesn’t actually have to water them, and they’re much more resilient and harder to kill than anything Alex has ever taken care of, which is much more than he can say for literally anything else.

“Elvira isn’t the only victim,” he says, frowning as he spots the last plant, the first one that Michael had given him, a red aglaonema that had been green with vibrant red lines that had reminded Alex of blood. “Audrey has suffered the same fate.”

[spacebrick3]

WHG Prompt 4: Snow

Welcome to the train! Snow gets a (literal) run-in with @ratracechronicler​‘s own Begonia Rex, and maybe, just maybe—though who knows how the simulator will go down—these two characters can help each other out!

It might have been the train taking a particularly sharp corner, or the wheels hitting a penny left in the hopes of seeing the coin scorched and flattened under the rails. It might have been Snow focusing on the forestry whipping past the window, the few homes set up dangerously close to the train tracks, or the young man that came careening around the corner with his own stack of books.

The end result is both of them sitting dazed on the floor, surrounded by a scattering of books, Ditch Medicine: Field Procedures for Emergencies and Bushcraft First Aid mixed with Flora of North America and Plant Identification Terminology. He scrambles to his feet almost immediately, looking much more graceful now that he’s not colliding with her at what she guesses must have been the speed of sound. “Oh, I’m so sorry, I wasn’t looking where I was going—can I help you up? And your books too?”

She takes his hand with a grimace, brushing off her jacket. “Don’t worry about it,” she says, noting the scratches and bruises that suggest this isn’t his first head-on collision.

“The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide?” he asks, picking up one of her cream-colored paperbacks from the ground and turning it over with a frown. “This is one of yours, isn’t it? I don’t want to seem pushy or anything, but this edition is very out of date. Um. And if you’re planning to use it for the Games, then maybe I could lend you one of my books instead that’s a bit more recent-“

“Out of date how?” she asks suspiciously.

He grins, giving the impression that he’s been waiting the entire train ride—and, if she’s correct in matching him to the pixelated television photos, he’s from District 11—to talk about it. “Well, I think Easley makes a lot of assumptions when he cites which plants are best. I mean, he’s not wrong in a lot of cases, but I think he doesn’t estimate the effects right. Because he knows which chemicals are in which plants,” he says, gesturing excitedly, “he conflates the chemical effects with the plant effects, but they’re not the same thing at all! Leaves will be different than roots will be different than stems, but that’s not taken into account in the book!”

“…huh. What’s your name?”

“Begonia Rex,” he says proudly. “What about you?”

“Snow.” She pushes open one of the cabin doors, noting its emptiness. “Can I talk to you?”

His eyes light up. “Course! Is that your real name, though? Snow?”

“No,” she says, sweeping the rest of her books into a pile and shoving them under the cabin seat. As much as she hates to admit it, he might be the most useful person she can find on this godforsaken train. Certainly more so than the vapid District 8 champion, who had won his Games by falling off a cliff, surviving, and hiding until everyone else died, and was convinced of his own superiority. 

Truth is, she doesn’t know shit about plants. The only way she’s worked with them is in processed extracts and bright orange bottles—but somehow, she doubts the Games will provide her with a functioning laboratory. So she needs to know the plants behind the medicine, and quickly, too. “You a botanist, Rex?”

“Oh, you can call me Begonia,” he says with a laugh. “And…yes? Sort of? I definitely did all the studying, but they never gave me a test or anything.”

Okay. Not exactly confidence-inspiring. But…good enough. “Alright, Begonia. I suspect you’re not much of a fighter-“ He nods, giving a rueful smile with but here I am written all over it- “so I want to propose an alliance.”

“Uh…there only gets to be one person alive at the end.”

“I plan on surviving as long as possible,” she informs him flatly. “I’m a doctor, but I need medicine, and it sounds like you can help me with that. We’ll figure out which of us kills the other when we need to. Or we’ll both be killed by any of the thirty-four others who are also trying to be the one person alive.”

“Everyone’s always so pessimistic about the Games,” he says with a shrug, “but, like, why should they be? It’s all random, so most of the people they draw aren’t fighters, and there’s plenty of things to do in the Arena besides just trying to kill each other…”

She manages to stop herself asking if he genuinely doesn’t know how any of the dozens of Games before this turned out. “Well,” she says slowly, drawing the word out, “even if the people there won’t kill us, the Capitol has a habit of releasing wild animals with sharp teeth into the Arena.” Probably should keep the subject on plants, especially as she feels the urge to throttle whoever forced this friendly and cheerfully oblivious botanist into the Games, where he will be killed by the first playing-to-win tribute he encounters. “Seems like laurus nobilis, bay leaf, would be best for treating wounds like that-“

“See, people thought that,” he says, “but there’s actually a recent paper that shows that Allamanda cathartica is better for treating open wounds. But the bay leaf grows in more places, so the Arena’s more likely to have it. Allamanda is a yellow flowering vine, so keep an eye out for that, and I assume you know what bay leaf looks like?”

She scribbles some quick notes on the inside cover of the outdated book. “Right. Tracker jackers, then. What would be best for treating their stings?”

“You’ll want to look for plants that treat snakebites, really, ‘cause of how their venom works. It’s actually ingenious, the way they’re designed, because it’s both an infusal of two types of genetics into one creature which is more terrifying than its constituent species, and because it’s a type of camouflage for the venom! Because they look like wasps, people use typical treatment of insect stings, which gives the venom more time to work…

As he talks excitedly about all the different things that will kill them in the Arena, she finds herself wondering not whether he’ll survive a second in the Games, but how he’s even managed to survive this far.

[catgreys]

List of Jenna Marbles’ plants

Order as shown in her tour plant video:

1. Hoya compacta variegata

2. Whale fin snake plant (Sansevieria masoniana) - “Whale”

3. Chinese perfume plant (Aglaia odorata)

4. Rubber plant (Ficus elastica ruby) - “Ninky Minjaj”

5. Bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae) - “Miss Keisha”

6. Monstera deliciosa - “Ghillie”

7. Fiddle Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata) - “Björk”

8. Hoya carnosa Krimson Princess

9. Hoya carnosa Krimson Queen

10. Hoya carnosa 'Krinkle 8'

11. Hoya obovata

12. Hoya 'Mathilde'

13. Hoya curtisii

14. Hoya fitchii - “Vine 2”

15. Hoya bilobata (maybe carnosa) - “Lahoya Jackson”

16. Neon Pothos (Epipremnum pinnatum)

17. Satin Pothos (Scindapsus pictus 'Argyraeus')

18. Pothos (Epipremnum aureum 'Njoy’)

19. Philodendron micans

20. Alocasia micholitziana ‘Frydek’

21. Succulent ??

22. Succulent ??

23. Succulent ??

24. Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii’) - “Rex”

25. ZZ plant (Zamioculcas Zamiifolia) - “Vin Diesel”

26. Coral Cactus (Euphorbia Lactea)

27. Ponytail Palm / Elephant’s foot (Beaucarnea recurvata) - “Coachella”

28. Prickly Pear (Opuntia)

29. String of Pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)

30. Burro's Tail / Donkey's Tail (Sedum morganianum) - “Burro”

31. Snake plant (Sansevieria ??)

32. Snake plant (Sansevieria ??)

33. Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata Moonshine)

34. ZZ plant (Zamioculcas Zamiifolia)

35. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema 'Valentine')

36. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema ??)

37. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema ??)

38. Marble Queen Pothos (Scindapsus)

39. Snake plant (Sansevieria cylindrica)

40. Snake plant (Sansevieria cylindrica)

41. Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)

42. Snake plant (Sansevieria ??)

43. Snake plant (Sansevieria ??)

44. Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii’)

45. Philodendron scandens Brasil

46. Snake plant (Sansevieria hahnii)

47. Peperomia 'Ginny'

48. Variegated Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum ??)

49. Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)

50. Kentia palm (Howea forsteriana)

51. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

52. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

53. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

54. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

55. Little Red Riding Hood Aloe (Aloe 'Rooikappie’)

56. Aloe Vera

57. Begonia Maculata 'Wightii'

58. Pilea peperomioides - “Pawd”

59. Monstera Adansonii

60. Rubber plant (Ficus elastica ‘Burgundy’) - “Poco Roberto”

61. Rubber plant (Ficus elastica ‘Burgundy’) - “Roberto”

62. Hoya lacunosa

63. Hoya compacta

64. Oxalis rubra

65. Snake plant starfish (Sansevieria ‘Boncel’)

66. Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata hahnii)

67. Snake plant (Sansevieria hahnii)

68. Snake plant 6 braid (Sansevieria japonesa)

69. Snake plant (Sansevieria ??)

70. Dracaena Warneckii 

71. Curly spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum Bonnie)

72. Marble Queen Pothos (Scindapsus)

73. Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) - “Rally Weed”

74. Satin Pothos (Scindapsus pictus 'Argyraeus')

75. Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)

+ 5 cuttings for propagation - Philodendron micans, Satin Pothos (Scindapsus pictus 'Argyraeus')

[chickadeegreen]

this bb grew 4 leaves in a month & can’t be stopped 🌱🌱🌱🌱