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Gitagal wrote:
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I have had an Angel Wing Begonia forever--I mean--maybe 25 years.
This is the big one--also called a "Cane Begonia".
I keep it on my front porch all summer--facing North. It grows huge!

In the house for the winter--it gets leggy and drops a lot of bottom leaved.
No worry--as EVERY year, I cut the tops off and root them. Every 2 or 3 year--
I pull the whole plant out and discard the older roots and re-pot the better ones.
And--it grows to about 3' tall again.
This is how I have kept it going all these years.

many people call Begonias with the "wing-like leaves "Anger Begonia". Even the one
we are talking about here. There are so many kinds....Not sure they can all be called that-though.

Here is my big one. Gita