IT’S a beauty. Tall with thick velvet-like hair, it resembles its father. The characteristic of its father is clearly evident, so is that of its mother in the yellow of the veins. That is Begonia Tuti Siregar, a new cultivar (cultivated variety) at the Bali Botanical Garden listed with the American Begonia Society under registration number 1001.

The new variety is the result of crossbreeding between Begonia listada, a plant with pointed spott