Cultivar
B. ‘Chucu’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Chucu’
- Originator
- Rudolf Ziesenhenne
- Date of Origin
- 1977
- Place
- Santa Barbara, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘MacIntyre's daedalea’
- Male Parent
- B. aridicaulis
- ABS No
- 620
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B78 a083
- Article References
- The Begonian (45) March 1978, p. 83-84.
Plant
- Description
- No. 620 - Begonia (B. 'Macintyre's "Daedalea" X B. aridicaulis Ziesenh.) 'Chucu' Rudolf Ziesenhenne, address above, originated this rhizomatous plant in 1975 and will distribute it in 1978. Leaves are dark green, nerves lighter, with a very narrow band of black on margin; green below; uneven heart-shaped; 7.7 x 4.7 cm (3 x 1 ¾”); margin thinly ciliated, shallow-toothed; texture medium; nerves palmately 8; petioles 12 cm (4 ½”) long; stipules long triangular. Flowers are white; wings edged rose; pod spotted rose; inverted egg shaped; 1.3 x 1.6 cm wide; petals male 2, female 2; arranged in cyme on 17 cm Volume 45 March 1978 (7 ½”) flower stem; blooms July. August. Registered Aug. 2, 1977.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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