Cultivar
B. ‘Delphine Fosmo’
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Delphine Fosmo’
- Originator
- Belva Nelson Kusler
- Date of Origin
- 1973
- Place
- Siren, Wi.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Cane-like
- Female Parent
- B. dregei var. dregei
- Male Parent
- B. ‘Laura Engelbert’
- ABS No
- 378
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B74 a043
- Article References
- The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :14. 1980;
Plant
- Description
- No. 378 - Begonia (B. dregei x B. 'Laura Englebert') 'Delphine Fosmo' Developed in 1961, first bloomed in 1962, and first distributed in 1963 by the originator, Belva N. Kusler, address above, this small cane with fern-green 7 x 3 in. leaves, red backed, narrowly ovate, oblique, base cordate, apex sharp acute, is everblooming; Leaf margin dentate at vein ends, undulate; texture coriaceous; veins pinnate, evident, oblique to petiole which is semi-terete, 11/4 in. long, glabrous; stipules triangular caducous. Flowers are rose, 1¾-1¼ in., pendulous, compound dichasium on 1¾" stem. Registered Sept. 22, 1973.
- Plant Height
- Medium
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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