Cultivar

B. ‘Fiji Islands’

Photos

4 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Fiji Islands’
Date of Origin: 1966
Publication Date: 1981
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Cathedral’
Synonyms and Comments: Supposedly produced by leaf cuttings from B. ‘Cathedral’ that remain dwarf. My experience found that such plants produced by leaf eventually became the same as the parent plant through good culture.
Publication Reference: MLT1; B78 d108; B86 d110
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Cathedral’

Male parent

Not recorded

Supposedly produced by leaf cuttings from B. ‘Cathedral’ that remain dwarf. My experience found that such plants produced by leaf eventually became the same as the parent plant through good culture.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Fiji Islands’

Female parent

B. ‘Cathedral’

This plant is a sport from the parent B . ‘Feastii’ (synonymous name for B . ‘Erythrophylla’) . B . ‘Cathedral Windows’ is synonymous for B. ‘Cathedral’

Female parent

B. ‘Feastii’

B. ‘Erythrophylla’;

Female parent

B. manicata var. manicata

B. U171; B. U179; B. lepidota Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):388. 1861; B. schizolepis Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :17. 1853; B. robustior Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:155. 1950.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. manicata hort. Paris ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 11:35. 1843. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):342. 1864;

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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