Cultivar
B. ‘Triomphe de Lemoine’
Photos
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Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Triomphe de Lemoine’
- Originator
- M. Lemoine
- Date of Origin
- 1889
- Place
- Nancy
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Hiemalis
- Female Parent
- B. socotrana
- Male Parent
- B. cyathophora
- Publication Reference
- GA;WCH
- Article References
- Garden and forest, v. 2, (1889)
Plant
- Description
- Garden and forest, v. 2, (1889) B. Triomphe de Lemoine: A New Winter-blooming Begonia. This hybrid Begonia, of which a portrait of the original plant appears on page 557, is a novelty which has received much attention in Europe during the past year. It is very free flowering; it remains in flower for months, and it can be grown and flowered, apparently, with very little trouble. The habit of the plant, as our illustration shows, is excellent. The foliage is good, and the flowers are brilliant, recalling in color those of Impatiens sultani. We are indebted to Monsieur Lemoine, to whose skill in hybridizing we owe this handsome plant, for the following note regarding it, and for the photograph from which our illustration has been prepared. The new Begonia was obtained by impregnating the flowers of Begonia Socotrana during the winter of 1887- 88 with pollen from another species, probably B. roezlii. The flowers oi B. Socotrana had been fertilized by a number of species, but only a single cross was successful. Whether the pollen-parent was B. roezlii or not, the seedling in less than a year formed a mass of foliage sixteen inches high by twenty-eight inches in diameter. The hybrid may be described as follows: "The stems are herbaceous, spreading, then erect and branching into numerous flowering branches. The leaves are large, coriaceous, orbicular, rather oblique; the margins slightly cinereous; six inches in diameter; those at the base of the stem much the largest. The flowers are produced in dichotomous cymes from the axils of the leaves. The male flowers, with four petals, measure one and a half inches across, and are rose-carmine in color, the buds being rather brighter carmine before the flowers expand. The female flowers are exceedingly rare. More than 600 flowers have been open on the plant at the same time, and it has been so covered with bloom as to resemble an immense bouquet. This Begonia budded the 1st of December 1888, and the first flowers opened toward the middle of January. It was still covered with flowers in the month of May, when it was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, and excited the admiration of everyone who saw it. "The plants should be plunged out-of-doors during the summer, and grown in a cool house during the autumn and winter." - V. Lemoine, Nancy.
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