Cultivar

B. ‘Selph's Mahogany’

Photos

4 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Selph's Mahogany’
Originator: Burt Selph
Date of Origin: 197n?
Place: East Texas
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Heracleicotyle’
Male Parent: B. unknown
Synonyms and Comments: Seth’s Mahogany; Believed to be introduced in the 1970s or early 1980s as per information provided by Tamsin Boardman (Freda Holley, email 8/11/2016)
Publication Reference: BTL2; B98 r167; YBG

Plant

Plant Hardiness: has survived in the ground in temperatures of 25 degrees in Fort Worth, TX

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Heracleicotyle’

Male parent

B. unknown

Seth’s Mahogany; Believed to be introduced in the 1970s or early 1980s as per information provided by Tamsin Boardman (Freda Holley, email 8/11/2016)

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Selph's Mahogany’

Seth’s Mahogany; Believed to be introduced in the 1970s or early 1980s as per information provided by Tamsin Boardman (Freda Holley, email 8/11/2016)

Female parent

B. ‘Heracleicotyle’

B. ‘Mrs. Townsend’

Female parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Tonkawa’

Male parent: B. mazae f. nigricans

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

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