Cultivar

B. ‘Firewalker’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Firewalker’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Hannah Serr’
Male Parent: B. ‘Olei Silver Spot’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Dark bronze pointed leaves with silver spots. Flowers are profuse and very dark red, even in low light. Very compact and full growing. Makes an excellent small basket.
Plant Habit: Compact and bushy
Plant Height: Low
Other Features: Basket Plant

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Hannah Serr’

Male parent

B. ‘Olei Silver Spot’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Firewalker’

Female parent

B. ‘Hannah Serr’

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Olei Silver Spot’

Female parent

B. ‘Orange Rubra’