Species
B. deliciosa
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. deliciosa
- Author
- Linden ex Fotsch, Begonien
- Publication Date
- 1933
- Date of Origin
- 1881
- Country
- Borneo
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 22
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous - upright jointed
- Reference
- Begonien: 81, pl. 33. 1933; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:115. 2005;
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :47. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :57. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.68. 2005; The Begonian, Oct 1964; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 41 (49);
Plant
- Stem Type
- Underground with erect stems
Lineage
51 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
51 recorded children
As female parent
28
Male parent: B. floccifera
Male parent: B. ‘Perhaps’
Male parent: B. Thailand sp.
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Midnight Magic’
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. unidentified sp.
Male parent: B. ‘Lee's No. 9’
Male parent: B. kenworthyae
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Her Majesty Sylvia Leatherman’
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Golden Gate’
Male parent: B. ‘Her Majesty Sylvia Leatherman’
Male parent: B. floccifera
Male parent: B. ‘Sir Roy Yewell’
Male parent: B. Thailand sp.
Male parent: B. ‘Sir Roy Yewell’
Male parent: B. Thailand sp.
Male parent: B. ‘Bob Cochran’
Male parent: B. ‘Zeus’
Male parent: B. ‘Sir Roy Yewell’
Male parent: B. ‘Sir Roy Yewell’
Male parent: B. Thailand sp.
As male parent
23
Female parent: B. ‘Little Brother Montgomery’
Female parent: B. ‘Miss Pretty’
Female parent: B. masoniana
Female parent: B. ‘Hallelujah’
Female parent: B. ‘Tingley Mallet’
Female parent: B. hatacoa var. hatacoa
Female parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Female parent: B. decora
Female parent: B. u400
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. hatacoa var. hatacoa
Female parent: B. ‘Regal Minuet’
Female parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Female parent: B. ‘Corallina de Lucerna’
Female parent: B. ‘Tingley Mallet’
Female parent: B. masoniana
Female parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Female parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Female parent: B. masoniana
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘hatacoa Silver’
Female parent: B. ‘Little Brother Montgomery’
Female parent: B. chitoensis
Culture
- Comments
- Considered a cold hardy begonia as per John Boggan and his experience in his Washington DC garden. Grows outside through North Western Sydney winters from my experience. RB