Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Maple leaf begonia monster, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
If you want more plants, you can divide it or let it as is (looks great the way it is).

You can propagate it by leaf cuttings as well. Due to the size of these leaves, you can divide it like a cake (wedges) with a major vein in each wedge or use the entire leaf with the long stem left attached (lay the petiole horizontally in a low plastic container with clear lid, with a small amount of potting mix over the petiole). Wedges will provide more plants but they will be smaller to begin with but will eventually become like the mother plant.

Here are a couple of examples of propagating both ways. The first photo is of 'Island Magic' where the leaf and petiole are placed in a small bed of potting mix inside a spinach container from the grocery store. The many shoots at the left edge are from the cut end of the petiole and the leaf itself is putting up pups as well.

The second photo is of a tray of Jiffy pellets using wedge cuttings.