Cultivar
B. ‘Curly It’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Curly It’
- Originator
- Leslie Woodriff
- Date of Origin
- 1979
- Publication Date
- 1982
- Place
- McKinleyville, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rex Cultorum
- Female Parent
- B. ‘It’
- Synonyms and Comments
- Sport from the female parent.
- ABS No
- 839
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B82 a086
- Article References
- The Begonian (49) July 1982, p. 86-87.
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Curly It' No. 839-B. 'It' sport 'Curly It' Rhizomatous with erect stem, Rex Cultorum foliage, and compact habit. A double-spiraled form of the long-grown Woodriff cultivar B. 'It' (B. 'President' x socotrana), this new mutation has 6" x 4" light-green leaves with silver splotches, slightly serrate margin, slightly pustulate surface, and 6 main veins. Petioles are light green; stipules, pale pink. Pink 1 ½” x 1 ½”, 4-tepaled male and female flowers- similar to those of B. 'It'-ate borne on 10" peduncles the year round. Originated in 1979 by Leslie Woodriff, Fairyland Begonia Garden, 1100 Griffith Road, McKinleyville, CA 95521; first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1980. Published in Mildred L. Thompson and Edward J. Thompson, Begonias: The Complete Reference Guide, 1981, pp. 145, 297. Registered June 26, 1982.
Lineage
Parents
Female parent
B. ‘It’
Unresolved
×
Male parent
Not recorded
Sport from the female parent.
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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