Cultivar

B. ‘Evening Star’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Evening Star’
Originator: Paul P. Lowe
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Lake Park, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Chumash’
Male Parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’
ABS No: 343
Publication Reference: ABS;B73 a088
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.

Plant

Description: No. 343-Begonia ('Chumash' X 'Joe Hayden') 'Evening Star' Black leaved with red underside, star-shaped, with glossy texture and red veins, this rhizomatous begonia originated by Paul P. Lowe, address above, in 1971, first distributed by him in 1973, when it first bloomed in the spring, pink, on 5-inch stems, is available from the originator. Registered Mar. 7, 1973.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Chumash’

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Evening Star’

Female parent

B. ‘Chumash’

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

Male parent

Female parent

Female parent

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

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