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Cultivar

B. ‘Don Miller’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Don Miller’
Originator: Naron Stewart
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Texas
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Mallet
Female Parent: B. u062
Male Parent: B. ‘Torch’
Synonyms and Comments: Optimara released this commercially as B. ‘Frosty’. The male parent for this cultivar is B. "pinafore sport" which was later named B. 'Torch'
Publication Reference: BEG;B93 pd049; B95 r148

Plant

Description: Small leaves densely spotted with fine silvery white dots. Pink flowers, full, compact habit. Prone to mildew.
Plant Height: Low

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

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Male parent

Optimara released this commercially as B. ‘Frosty’. The male parent for this cultivar is B. "pinafore sport" which was later named B. 'Torch'

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Don Miller’

Optimara released this commercially as B. ‘Frosty’. The male parent for this cultivar is B. "pinafore sport" which was later named B. 'Torch'

Female parent

Opinions vary on plant type, this plant often considered a Cane-like - mallet

Male parent

B. ‘Pinafore Sport’

Female parent

B. ‘Pinafore’

Female Parent cited as a seedling of B. ‘Elaine’;

Female parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

0

No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.

As male parent

1

B. ‘Summer Smoke’

Female parent: B. dregei var. dregei

Culture

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