B. ‘Duchartrei’

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

Revue Horticole. Paris: Librairie agricole de la maison rustique, 1829-1974. Anne 1892, Page 29-30: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/196171 (translated using Google translate) The care of the sowers of Begonias has been chiefly devoted to the species and varieties of beautiful flowers in recent years, and everyone knows to what degree of brilliancy, perfection in forms, and unlikely diameters in the corollas. In the bushy forms, it is still the types with pretty flowers, although more modest, which preoccupied the researchers, witness everything that has recently produced the old type Begonia semperflorens. Others, finally, have applied themselves to the shrubby forms, joining the beauty of the port to that of foliage and flowers. Of this number is the novelty which we now represent, which M. Bruant, the Poitiers, is about to put into commerce, and wishes to dedicate to M. Duchartre, the eminent secretary-editor of the Societe Nationale d ' Horticulture of France, and President of the Academy of Sciences. Here is the description: Strong plant with upright stems, not very branched, up to 1 meter or more in height, dark purplish red, swollen at knots, covered, like petioles, peduncles and leaves, long white hairs. Short petiole, (4-5 centimeters), robust leaves long, limbs 15 -18 centimeters, oval-lanceolate, acute at the top, very inequilaterally, with weakly sinuate-saw tooth edges, very green and covered above rare hairs, taught, white; ribs barely buried, of a violet reddish, very hispid and not protruding. Stipules largely oval-lanceolate acute. Numerous inflorescences in the axils of the leaves. Peduncle very long 25-29 cm, dichotomous, sometimes with a lanceolate leaflet at the first branch. Bracts oblong. Strong umbels, well-kept, with short pedicel. White flowers, 4-centimeter males, has 4 suborbicular petals, middle one’s smaller half, females 5 centimeters, has 5 oval-oblong petals, including one smaller, hedges on the back of rare, red, dressy hairs, like those of the internal angles of the ovary, which is of a creamy white, with very protruding wings. The B. Duchartrei (fig. 7) originates from a cross made by M. Bruant on B. echinosepala, a small species of entirely floral divisions, fecundated by the beautiful B. Scharfiana. The plant differs from B. pictaviensis by leaves less large, very oblique, green shrubby, less herbaceous, by its white flowers and white calyx and not bright pink, petioles less long and more Green hawks, almost glabrous and not hereditary. It will be a very robust plant, has a fertilizer, has a wintering period, and will continue outside in the open ground. M. Bruant's Begonia Margaritae and pictaviensis were already two good vigorous and robust plants for the summer decoration of the great massifs of gardens. The B. Duchartrei continues the series and will provide services to garden lovers as a strong bottom plant, on which will be a pleasantly small species /variety with pink flowers. Ed. ANDRE.