Cultivar

B. ‘Winter Hollyhock’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Winter Hollyhock’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1939
Publication Date: 1941
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Trailing-Scandent
Female Parent: B. (gracilis var. martiana x socotrana)
Male Parent: B. unknown
Publication Reference: LW;B97 d135

Plant

Description: Martiana x Socotrana hybrid that grows to 2 feet with lovely bright pink flowers. Blooms during the winter and propagates by bulblets or cuttings. It gives the appearance of a hollyhock blooming in a pot during the winter and is really very attractive. - Fairyland Begonia & Lily Garden; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection; 1945

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. (gracilis var. martiana x socotrana)

Male parent

B. unknown

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Winter Hollyhock’

Female parent

B. (gracilis var. martiana x socotrana)

Female parent

B. gracilis var. martiana

martiana Link & Otto,1825 ; heterophylla hort. Schoenbr. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :122. 1854, pro syn. Knesebeckia martiana (Link & Otto) Klotzsch. 1854. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):310. 1864. ; tuberosa S essé & Mociño, Pl. Nov. Hisp. :163. 189 0, non visus. ; bulbifera Moricand ex A. de C., Prodr. 15(1):310. 1864, non Link & Otto, 1831, pro syn.; gracilis Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. gracilis , Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 141, quarto 184. 1825.

Male parent

B. socotrana

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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