Up-closed image of hardy begonia （秋海棠）

Up-closed image of hardy begonia （秋海棠）, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

This plant is called "Syu-kaidoh" in Japanese. Probably, it is not common in Europe and the US, Canada too. According to the WIKIPEDIA, This plant is native to the area covers from Malay peninsula to Southern part of China, and it brought from China to Japan in the early Edo period (1603 to 1868). Photo was taken by Olympus E-P3 with Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f0.95, 1/640 f1.4 ISO200 -0.3EV exposure bias