Cultivar

B. ‘Holley’s Beauty’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Holley’s Beauty’
Originator: Freda Holley
Date of Origin: 2000
Publication Date: 2004
Place: Stillwater, Ok.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Harbison Canyon ’
Male Parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’
ABS No: 998
Publication Reference: Begonian 74:186. 2007; Begonian 71:175. 2004; YBG; F Holley List, August 2014
Photo References: Begonian 74:188. 2007

Plant

Description: Very large rhizomatous cv that has proven to be a show winner with its many large spiraled leaves
Growth Type: Creeping
Stem Type: Creeping

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Harbison Canyon ’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Holley’s Beauty’

Female parent

B. ‘Harbison Canyon ’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Female parent

B. ‘Reichenheimii’

Female parent

B. ‘Fuscomaculata’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. mazae var. mazae

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Propagation Method: Rhizome pieces, leaf petiole cuttings, leaf wedge cuttings