Species
B. diadema
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. diadema
- Author
- Linden ex Rodigas, Ill. Hort.
- Publication Date
- 1882
- Date of Origin
- 1881
- Country
- Borneo
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 22
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous - upright jointed
- Synonyms and Comments
- Considered to be a cultivar because no other finds in Borneo have occurred;
- Reference
- Rodigas, Ill. Hort. 29:43, pl. 446. 1882.— C. Chevalier, Les Begonias,: 221-2, pl. 79. 1938; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias: 114-5. 2005;
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :47. 1980; Tebbitt, Begonias: pl. 68. 2005; The Begonian, Jan 1948; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 41 (50); Begonias, Misono 1974: 183 top left;
Plant
- Description
- Upright growing rhizomatous begonia with beautiful palmatisect silver splashed leaves.
- Growth Type
- Upright vase shaped
- Growth Rate
- Fast during growing season
- Plant Habit
- Upright stems from a basal clump
- Plant Spread
- 500 mm
- Plant Height
- 750 mm
- Stem Type
- Short underground rhizome with erect stems
- Stem Habit
- Freely branching
- Internodal Distance
- Very short on rhizome,60 mm on erect stems
- Sun Tolerance
- Some morning sun
- Plant Hardiness
- -2°cm, no frost, heat tolerant
- Pests Diseases
- Fairly resistant to mildew
Lineage
114 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Considered to be a cultivar because no other finds in Borneo have occurred;
Descendants
114 recorded children
As female parent
31
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. rex
Male parent: B. unknown
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Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
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Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
As male parent
83
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘Celebration’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Female parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. palmata var. palmata
Female parent: B. ‘Celebration’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. Un-named rex cv.
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘Nishiki’
Female parent: B. ‘Nishiki’
Female parent: B. ‘Nishiki’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘Rex Cultorum cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. beddomei
Female parent: B. palmata var. palmata
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. ‘Rex Cultorum cv.’
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. goegoensis
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Female parent: B. rex
Culture
- Propagation Method
- Leaf petiole cuttings, leaf wedge cuttings, stem cuttings, division
- Comments
- Considered a cold hardy begonia as per John Boggan and his experience in his Washington DC garden. Very successful in-ground outside through North Western Sydney winters. RB.