Cultivar

B. ‘High Sierra’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘High Sierra’
Originator: Cynthia Bishop
Date of Origin: 1993
Place: California
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Trailing-Scandent
Female Parent: B. echinosepala var. echinosepala
Male Parent: B. reniformis
Publication Reference: B93 pd147

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. echinosepala var. echinosepala

Male parent

B. reniformis

Ancestry tree

B. ‘High Sierra’

Female parent

B. echinosepala var. echinosepala

itajaiensis Brade, Arq. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janerio 13:76, pl. 3. 1954. —L.B. Smith & R.C. Smith, Fl. Il. Catarin. 1(Bego):83. 1971.

Male parent

B. reniformis

huberi C. de Candolle in Huber, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 1:315. 1901. ; inermis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76:39. 1953. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:444. 1983. Fig.31.17. = reniformis Dryander. 1791, sphalmate. [I think this is neither Begonia vitifolia Schott, nor Begonia reniformis Dryander, J. Golding.]; longipes W. J. Hooker Bot. Mag. 57:pl. 3001. 1830.; palmifolia hort. Buxton,1932; vitifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; truncata; grandis Otto ; elatior hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2, 1:193. 1 840. ; vitifolia var. bahiensis; vitifolia var. grandis; longipes W. J. Hooker var. laticordata A. de Candolle in Martius,Fl. Bras. $(1):368. 1861.; vitifolia hort. Berol ex Klotzsch. 1855.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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