Cultivar

B. ‘Fragrant Beauty’

Photos

1 photo

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Fragrant Beauty’
Originator: Atsuyuki Ashizawa
Date of Origin: 1976
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Japan
Country: Japan
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Trailing-Scandent
Female Parent: B. solananthera
Male Parent: B. radicans
Publication Reference: MLT2; B93 p160; B88 d043; The Begonian, Mar-Apr 1988
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :18. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :151. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.128. 2005; The Begonian, Mar-Apr 1993; The Begonian, Mar-Apr 1988

Plant

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Lineage

2 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. solananthera

Male parent

B. radicans

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Fragrant Beauty’

Female parent

B. solananthera

B. integerrima Tebbitt, Begonias 5:158. 2005. has been wrongly identified as B. solanathera A. de Candolle in general use. Both are very similar plants but B. solanthera has dense hairs on its peduncles and main veins of the lower leaf surfaces whereas there are none on B. integerrima.

Male parent

B. radicans

B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 118:pl. 7219. 1892.; B. procumbens Vellozo,Fl. Flum. icon. 10:pl. 36. “1827". 1831.; B. limminghei Pynaert, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 1:259, pl. 1875.; B. limmingheana Morren, Belgique Hort. 16:21, pls. 3–4. 1866.; B. liminghi hort. Wein. Ill. Garten–Zeit, 10:426, pl. 1885.; B. dubia Vellozo, Fl. Flum. icon. 10: pl. 42. “1827" . 1831, nomen nudum.; descr. Arch. Mus. Nat. Rio de Janeiro 5:405. 1881, non Haworth. 1819.; B. sandersii hort. Kew ex A. de Candolle.1864.; B. fritz-muelleri Brade,Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro Bot. n.s. 1:12, pl. 3. 1944.; B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker var. scandens hort. ex fotsch,1933.; B. glaucophylla J. D. Hooker. var. splendens hort. ex Fotsch,1933.; B. coccinea W. J. Hooker var. A. de Liming Regel, Gartenflora 17:194. 1868.; B. coccinea W. J. Hooker var. Comte Alfred de Limering Regel, Gartenflora 17:191, pl. 584.1868.; B. limminghei hort ex Gentil, Pl. Cult. Serres Jard, Bot. Brux. : 33. 1907, non visus.

Descendants

2 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Spring Sky’

Male parent: B. albopicta

As male parent

B. ‘Osahime’

Female parent: B. ‘Mrs. Hashimoto’

Culture

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