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I thought dragon wing begonias were as cool as they got! Did you get it from where you work??? I’ve never seen one where I shop for plants

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syngoniums:

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Yep! Begonias can get SUPER extremely cool. They’re one of my favorites and there are about 800 kinds…

Rex Begonias are usuallyyy sold as annuals in spring to go in shade combination planters. At my old greenhouse job, the only weird begonias I’d seen were Escargot Rex begonias

And also Pegasus/Gryphon begonias

Rex Begonias and other rhizomatous begonias are usually the most awesome and varied foliage wise. Here’s my others:

One of my favorites and plants I really want is Begonia maculata ‘Wightii”

Also… Begonia luxurians

And Iron Cross Begonias are cool

And also, my mom has hardy begonias which are super cool. They’re hardy to zone 6.

But yeah… begonias

Begonias are really cool. Some species are really, really cool, like Begonia ferox and locii.

B. ferox and B. PAVONINA! are two big reasons I’d like to try a large terrarium one day!

Jesus, I hadn’t seen pictures of Begonia ferox and just….

it’s so goth I’m crying

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Mmmmm bananas from our banana tree. They tasted kind of sour.

@ethereal-insight @wise-old-saturn and anyone else asking about my banana lads, look ok… bananas are actually a pretty diverse group of plants but there are only a few that we cultivate on a mass scale to the point that you see them in store. The main one being the Cavendish cultivar(s) which are the long yellow sweet ones. There are over 70 different species of banana (Musa) but the wild type bananas are mostly seeds and gross so various different cultivars have been developed over time that reduces seed size and makes them sweeter and there are only a few species widely cultivated today for world markets. Technically plantains are the same thing as bananas, just different cultivars and/or species and are starchier/seedier/whatever.

Our bananas at work are not Cavendish bananas so they aren’t going to look like Cavendish bananas. Idk what cultivar they are but inside they look basically just like a regular banana. And taste kind of like if you eat a Cavendish that’s still green. You wouldn’t ever see these kinds of bananas in stores because a) they ugly b) they taste a little funky and c) idk how they’d hold up to transport they kind of got brown just getting them down from the tree and having them sit for a day.

The banana trees people buy to grow their own bananas at home are usuallyyy Dwarf Cavendish so if you grew your own banana tree at home, you’d get bananas that look more like your typical store banana.

Also cool fun fact, if you’ve ever heard that banana candy flavor is based on the Gros Michel banana which went extinct in the 20th century…. that’s false. First of all, the Gros Michel isn’t extinct, just not really viable to produce on a mass scale because the disease that almost wiped it out is still around. And idk if banana flavored candy tastes like Gros Michel or not, you’d have to travel to a banana farm that grew them to find out.

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Okay does anybody know what plant this is?????, cause I gotta have it!!

Definitely hoya, but not certain to the kind. The foliage looks a little broad for it to be necessarily Hoya carnosa but it could be carnosa.

I don’t think carnosa, probably Hoya obovata (it’s got the little speckles?)

I’ve seen carnosa do the speckle thing but lesso, but I agree now that I’ve taken a look, H. obovata would be a far more likelier suspect due to foliage shape and for the fact it has more speckles than carnosa.