Cultivar

B. ‘Marmorea’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Marmorea’
Date of Origin: 1853
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. xanthina
Male Parent: B. hatacoa var. hatacoa
Publication Reference: FSJ; WBHC-WW

Plant

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Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. xanthina

Male parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Marmorea’

Female parent

B. xanthina

Etymology: Greek xanthina (yellow) after the flower colour; B. lazuli Linden, Suppl. Cat. Pl. Exot. :2. 1858, nomen nudum. —W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.; B. xanthina W.J. Hooker var. lazuli W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.—C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:644. 1879.; B. picta auct. non J.E. Smith: hort. Jackson ex W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5107. 1859.; B. xanthina W. J. Hooker var. pictifolia W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 85:pl. 5102. 1859;

Male parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Robert Schoeller’

Male parent: B. acida

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

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