Cultivar

B. ‘Downwind’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Downwind’
Originator: Kit Jeans
Date of Origin: 1980
Place: Johnsonville
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Inglewood’
Male Parent: B. ‘Inglewood’
ABS No: 824
Publication Reference: ABS;B81 q142
Article References: The Begonian (49) June 1981, p. 142-3.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Downwind' No. 824-Begonia 'Inglewood' x 'Inglewood' 'Downwind' Rhizomatous. Apple-green, 5" x 3", deeply lobed (cleft) star leaves are succulent, glabrous except for ciliate margins, and 5-veined. Petioles are white-hairy; stipules, chartaceous. Pink, 2-tepaled, I" flowers, borne in forked cymes on 10-12" peduncles, rise above the foliage in winter. The thick, succulent leaves on petioles twisting and turning in all directions distinguish the cultivar. Originated by Kit Jeans (address above) in 1978; first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1980. Tested by Helen Wilson, Downwind, 11001 Glen Road, Potomac, MD 20854. Registered July 22, 1980.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Male parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Downwind’

Female parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male 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. manicata var. manicata

B. U171; B. U179; B. lepidota Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):388. 1861; B. schizolepis Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853; B. robustior Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:155. 1950.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. manicata hort. Paris ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 11:35. 1843. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864;

Male parent

B. ‘Inglewood’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

Male parent

B. manicata var. manicata

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

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