Cultivar
B. ‘Echo’
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Echo’
- Originator
- Leslie Woodriff
- Date of Origin
- 1979
- Publication Date
- 1982
- Place
- McKinleyville, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Trailing-Scandent
- Female Parent
- B. echinosepala var. echinosepala
- Male Parent
- B. ‘Odorata Alba’
- ABS No
- 840
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B82 a086;B89 d126
- Article References
- The Begonian (49) July 1982, p. 86-87.
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Echo' No. 840-Begonia echinosepala x 'Odorata Alba' 'Echo' Cane-like trailer with 12" stems, small medium-green leaves, and fragrant pink flowers. The leaves are 3 ½” x 3", slightly serrate, satiny and smooth, with 6 main veins. Petioles and stipules are light green. The light pink, 1" x 1" flowers are similar to those of B. 'Tea Rose', but larger and deeper pink. Two-tepaled male and four-tepaled female flowers are carried in clusters on 8" petioles the year round. Originated in 1979 by Leslie Woodriff (address above); first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1979. Published in Thompson and Thompson, Begonias, 1981, pp. 215, 300. Registered June 27, 1982.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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