Cultivar

B. ‘Triomphe de Boulogne’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Triomphe de Boulogne’
Originator: Painteche
Date of Origin: 1900
Country: France
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. rex
Male Parent: B. decora
Publication Reference: JSNH; WBHC-WW
Article References: Die Gartenwelt. Berlin :G. Schmidt, Jahr. 5 (1900-1901): Page 176 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30381

Plant

Description: Die Gartenwelt. Berlin :G. Schmidt, Jahr. 5 (1900-1901): Page 176 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30381 These names are described in October, 1900, of the Journal of the Societe Nationale d'Horticulture de France, a new begonia, which is regarded as very valuable by French connoisseurs. Her breeder is Painteche in Boulogne-sur-Seine, in whose cultures in 1899 this novelty showed itself under several genuine B. versaillensis. It is probably a sport of the same, and is characterized by strikingly purple, bronze-lined leaves, and very crimson colored flowers. In consequence, 'Triomphe de Boulogne' is much superior to the parent species, and over all its hybrids, as well as the form rubra.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. rex

Male parent

B. decora

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Triomphe de Boulogne’

Female parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Male parent

B. decora

Etymology: after the decorative leaves; B. praeclara King, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 71:66. 1902. —Ridley, J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 4:21. 1909; Fl. Malay Penins. 1:863. 1922;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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