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Begonia aconitifolia A.DC.

Aconite Leaved Begonia

Begoniaceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Begonia aconitifolia, photograph Martins Carla, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBegonia aconitifolia, photograph Pedro Santoro, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBegonia aconitifolia, photograph Siquara Caca, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBegonia aconitifolia, photograph Anna Breguez, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBegonia aconitifolia, photograph katia imperial de campos, CC BY-SA, via GBIFBegonia aconitifolia, photograph Lomani Passos Daniela, CC BY-SA, via GBIF 24 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
9.9°C
Record low 4.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,477mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
22–37DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to September (October to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Begonia aconitifolia is a species of plant in the family Begoniaceae, endemic to Brazil. It grows up to 1 meter in height, with panicles of pink flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Begonia aconitifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Begonia

Begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species, distributed primarily across tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, with Africa considered the center of origin. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates, or cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colorful flowers, which have petals but no sepals.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Begonia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Begonia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “wet tropical”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,111 mm of 1,482 mm) falls in October to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.6 °C against a yearly mean of 21.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Rain

1,482 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,111 mm of it October to March. Wettest month January at 262 mm, driest month August at 36 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,274 mm to 1,988 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,477 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,482 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 40).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 9.9 °C, the absolute minimum 4.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 37.1 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 13.2 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 11.7 °C to 17.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.1 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 9.9 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 61 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -393 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Group. Listed under the genus Begonia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Begonia aconitifolia through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 13.2 °C; 1,482 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°37.1° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER4.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 22–37RH 61–65%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 113 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 26–3028 / 27–3127 / 26–2926 / 24–2824 / 22–2623 / 21–2523 / 21–2524 / 22–2625 / 23–2726 / 24–2827 / 25–2927 / 25–29
Night °C20 / 19–2420 / 19–2420 / 18–2318 / 17–2216 / 14–2014 / 12–1813 / 12–1814 / 13–1816 / 14–1918 / 16–2019 / 17–2120 / 18–23
Rain mm262 / 194–323187 / 128–236173 / 141–23889 / 66–14370 / 38–10049 / 19–7046 / 13–6636 / 20–6281 / 55–114119 / 97–156156 / 129–231214 / 183–335
DLI36 / 35–3837 / 35–4033 / 32–3529 / 28–3124 / 23–2722 / 21–2523 / 22–2628 / 26–3230 / 28–3534 / 32–3736 / 34–3936 / 34–38
RH %65 / 63–6864 / 61–6865 / 62–6865 / 61–6764 / 59–6663 / 58–6462 / 57–6461 / 55–6462 / 56–6563 / 58–6764 / 60–6765 / 63–68
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 113 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (123 records in those cells; 1 more cell holds records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cell is left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2250:2716 (-22.525, -44.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 4.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 37.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 113 distinct grid cells holding 123 of the 124 in-range records (1 further cell with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2250:2716 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -22.50_-44.375, lapse-corrected -393 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 431 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Southeast · introduced: Dominican Republic · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-23.52, -46.657 · in the densest population, 107 records (82% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 130 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 123 of them in the land cells it reads, of 124 placed to within 10 km, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 130 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Martins Carla, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Pedro Santoro, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Siquara Caca, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Anna Breguez, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; katia imperial de campos, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Lomani Passos Daniela, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Bougainvillea glabra Bougainvillea glabra Paperflower Photo: CC BY, Rhino909Cordia superba Cordia superba Cordiaceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel DuarteBrunfelsia uniflora Brunfelsia uniflora Manaca Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizCentrolobium tomentosum Centrolobium tomentosum Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Giovanna Roque de CastroTabernaemontana hystrix Tabernaemontana hystrix Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaCariniana estrellensis Cariniana estrellensis Lecythidaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens Riella

Other Begonia 279 in the reference

Begonia abdullahpieei Begoniaceae Begonia acerifolia Begonia acerifolia Maple-leaved begonia Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovBegonia acetosa Begonia acetosa Ruby begonia Photo: CC0, Daderot Begonia acetosella Begoniaceae Begonia acida Begonia acida Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael WolfBegonia acutifolia Begonia acutifolia Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY, Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA… Begonia albomaculata Begoniaceae Begonia × albopicta Begoniaceae Begonia alice-clarkiae Begoniaceae Begonia almedana Begoniaceae Begonia amphioxus Begoniaceae Begonia ampla Begonia ampla Begoniaceae Photo: CC0, Ricardo Lima all 280 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Begonia faureana; Begonia faureana var. argentea; Begonia faureana var. metallica; Begonia kimusiana; Begonia sceptrum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Begoniaceae
Described by
A.DC.
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
130 in range · 130 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (5 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -22.50_-44.375, lapse-corrected -393 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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