About Begonia veitchii Hook.fil.
This species, scientifically named Begonia veitchii Hook.fil., produces bright red-orange flowers with rounded petals. The flowers are held on strong, erect stalks that extend well above the plant's foliage. As recorded in Hortus Veitchii, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker described this species in the Botanical Magazine as "the finest species then known". He stated: "Of all the species of Begonia known, this is, I think, the finest. With the habit of Saxifraga ciliata, immense flowers of a vivid vermilion cinnabar-red, that no colorist can reproduce, it adds the novel feature of being hardy in certain parts of England at any rate, if not in all."
