Cultivar

B. ‘Green Snowballs’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Green Snowballs’
Originator: Brad Thompson; released and named by Paul Tsamtsis
Date of Origin: 2001
Place: Sacramento, California
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Chardonay’
Male Parent: B. maculata var. maculata
Synonyms and Comments: B. ‘Green Snowball’
Publication Reference: TSAM;YBG

Plant

Description: Plant introduced by Paul Tsamtsis
Stem Type: Cane like

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Chardonay’

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. ‘Green Snowball’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Green Snowballs’

B. ‘Green Snowball’

Female parent

B. ‘Chardonay’

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. argyrostima Fischer ex Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Sel. :23, pl. 10. 1821.—Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2:626. 1825; B. punctata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot.. ed. 2 1:194. 1840.; B. albo-picta; B. aculeata Walpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; Repert. Bot. Syst. 5:767. 1846. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):354. 1861. [= B. maculata Raddi var. argentea (Van Houtte) A. de Candolle. 1861. — E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):583. 2005.; B. maculata var. argentea (van Houtte ex Klotzsch) A. de Candolle. 1861;

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘James Mark’

Male parent: B. ‘Pink Shasta’

B. ‘Lake Tahoe’

Male parent: B. ‘Pink Shasta’

B. ‘Tiny Dancer’

Male parent: B. ‘Pink Shasta’

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

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