# Plant Identification

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification/652733>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification/652733 "2013-03-12T17:57:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yearofglad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@yearofglad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yearofglad)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification/652733/1 "2013-03-12T17:57:39Z")

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Not sure if this is the right forum (Cafe Society?), but just need a simple plant identification on this plant - I lost the little tag and have a bad memory for such things, and Google didn’t help me.

[Picture](http://www.yearofglad.com/plant1.jpg)

Plant has broad leaves and the “joints” of the plant are a reddish tint.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification/652733/2 "2013-03-12T18:07:16Z")

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It’s a begonia. There are many species and varieties of it.

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**Author:** ![yearofglad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@yearofglad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yearofglad)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plant-identification/652733/3 "2013-03-12T18:58:00Z")

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Thanks - I knew it was a plant name I knew but I couldn’t think of it.