Cultivar

B. ‘Weltonensis Alba’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Weltonensis Alba’
Originator: Clark
Date of Origin: 1864
Place: England
Country: England, UK
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Semi-Tuberous
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. sutherlandii ssp. sutherlandii
Synonyms and Comments: B. ‘Weltoniensis’
Publication Reference: C;B74 d062
Article References: The Canadian horticulturist, v. 25-26, 1902
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :70. 1980;

Plant

Description: The Canadian horticulturist, v. 25-26, 1902 B. weltoniensis: Many varieties of summer flowering begonias can be had however that will give splendid results in windows or on verandahs where the sun shines for perhaps only an hour or two, morning and evening. Amongst the most effective and easily growing kinds is the pink flowering Weltoniensis begonia, also the white flowering variety (Weltoniensis alba, Fig. 2354), the former being the most robust and easiest to grow of the two kinds. Being of a semi-tuberous nature both of them can be kept partially dormant during the winter, but must not be dried off completely in the same way that the tuberous varieties are.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. sutherlandii ssp. sutherlandii

B. ‘Weltoniensis’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Weltonensis Alba’

B. ‘Weltoniensis’

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. sutherlandii ssp. sutherlandii

B. flava Binns, H. C. L. M.:23. 1968, non visus, non W. Marais. 1956.; B. snitcheri hort, Horticulture 25, 7:549. 1929, non visus. —Buxton, Check List Begonias :222, 1857; B. buttonii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:178, pl. 11:fig. 1. 1961. Natal. Fig. 5.19. —Hilliard in Ross, Fl. South Afr. 22:141. 1976.; B. dissecta Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:178, pl. 11:fig. 2. 1961.; B. gueinziana Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:177. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner var. gueinziana A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):385.1864.; B. sutherlandii Hooker J.D. var. minuscula Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:170, pl. 10:fig. 1. 1961.; B. sutherlandii Hooker J.D. var. subcuneata Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:164, pl. 8:fig. 2. 1961.; B. sutherlandii Binns, H.C.L.M. :23. 1968, non visus;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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