Cultivar

B. ‘Dollar Down’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Dollar Down’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1978
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Synonyms and Comments: Seedling from the female parent
ABS No: 695
Publication Reference: ABS;B79 a019

Plant

Description: Small spiraled brilliant scarlet-red leaves, edged black.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

Not recorded

Seedling from the female parent

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Dollar Down’

Seedling from the female parent

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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