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Mountain Manna
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Mountain Manna

Begonia obliqua

Begonia obliqua is the type species of the genus Begonia and the species to which Plumier first gave the name Begonia. It is native to Martinique, Dominica, and Guadeloupe.

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Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Mountain Manna in Selected Illustrations of Plants Collected in Japan

Selected Illustrations of Plants Collected in Japan

Engelbert Kaempfer · 1712 · p.59

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 132726.