Cultivar

B. ‘Apple Blossom Surprise’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Apple Blossom Surprise’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2003
Place: California
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Male Parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Apple Blossom Surprise’

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Etymology: referring to the flowers with 2 tepals; B.malabarica Lamarck var. dipetala Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. :128. 1859. —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:655. 1979. —Irmscher, Pareys Blumengart. ed. 2 :78. 1960.; malabarica A. de Candolle. 1864, non Lamarck, 1785.; tuberosa herb. Wight ex Wallich,1831; tuberosa herb. Heyne ex A. de C.,1864 non lamarck,1785; bipetala Loddiges in Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:193. 1840. —Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 9:59. 1841. errore typographico pro dipetala Graham. 1828.; malabarica auct. non Lamarck: A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):392. 1864. —J. Doorenbos, Begonian 67:170. 2000. Circulated incorrectly as ‘Mrs. W. S. Kimball’;u044

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Male parent

B. deliciosa

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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