Cultivar

B. ‘Lutea Nana’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Lutea Nana’
Originator: Urbain
Date of Origin: 1885
Publication Date: 1890
Place: France
Country: France
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Tuberous
Female Parent: B. ‘Gloire de Nancy’
Male Parent: B. pearcei
Publication Reference: C;IL
Article References: Wiener illustrirte Garten-Zeitung, jahr. 15, (1890)

Plant

Description: Wiener illustrirte Garten-Zeitung, jahr. 15, (1890) Begonia multiflora. The company Vilmorin & Cie. In Paris, has introduced a new tuberous Begonia race bred by their breeder Urbain, Handelsgartner in Clamart, and will be put into the market. Concerning these new hybrids of Begonia, which according to the report of the ‘Revue horticole’ originate from an cross from the B. Gloire de Nancy with varieties of B. Pearcei, there is an extremely favorable cross, so we consider ourselves obligated, to describe these new ones which are especially to be recommended for gardening because of their easier culture, their general utility in the garden, because of their uniform growth and their special resistance. The following four varieties are preliminary, to which we turn our attention and whose description we take from the superscribed journal. Madame A. Courtois. This variety reaches a height of 15 to 18 centimeters. Their flowers, supported by strong, glossy rose-like stems, are densely clustered, simple and filled, notwithstanding their considerable size of 5 to 7 centimeters in diameter, the latter spherical with numerous white-sulfur yellow petals that line up like tiles. Soleil d'Austerlitz. This variety has a quite ornamental value, remains very low, and is of a beautiful, bright red color in all its parts. The smooth stems are dark red colored. The leaves are brilliant green, very delicately toothed and only the veins are colored. The flowers are intense purplish red, stocky, with regular calyx-sized petals from 4 to 5 centimeters in diameter. Lutea nana is a plant that rarely reaches a height of 25 centimeters and is exceptionally flowering. The female as well as the male flowers are very large, above all the latter, which have a diameter of 5 to 7 centimeters, the outer petals are rounded, the numerous inner already golden yellow, which color contrasts from the rose-red stems. Rosea multiflora. As well as the aforementioned, this too is of very strong but low growth. The stems are smooth, shiny with pink bark. The small nonuniform leaves are fleshy, green on the top, pink on the back. The extraordinarily numerous flowers are 5 to 6 centimeters in diameter with roof-tile-like petals and are magnificently magenta. This new Begonia series of tuberous Begonia will, as can be assumed with certainty, be used in a short time in the planting of beds with preference and therefore we only want to add here that the propagation of these beautiful plants by cuttings, which after cutting from the tubers in mid-march. The rooting takes place in a short time in a warm bed, and its vigorous development into finished plants, which for the greater part of the year appear covered with innumerable bloods, fully justifying the name of this series B. multiflora Urbain.