| Scientific Name: | Begonia rex (incl. hybrids) |
| Common Name: | rex begonia |
| Family Name: | Begoniaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Prickly, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Branching hairs, Ovate, Ciliate, Dentate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Pink, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, palmately veined, blades of most cultivars asymmetric, ovate, 8-15(-33)cm long x 6-14(-21)cm wide, stiff hairs on undersides with many interesting blade shapes and markings (e.g. spiraled, spotted, streaked, bordered and splotched). | |