Cultivar
B. (circumlobata x rex)
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. (circumlobata x rex)
- Originator
- Schwerdtfeger
- Date of Origin
- 1951
- Publication Date
- 1952
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rex Cultorum
- Female Parent
- B. circumlobata
- Male Parent
- B. rex
- Synonyms and Comments
- Photos appear to be of two different plants!
- Article References
- American Horticultural Society, October 1952, pg. 237-259; Concerning Rex Begonia, by B. Y. Morrison
Plant
- Description
- American Horticultural Society, October 1952, pg. 237-259; Concerning Rex Begonia, by B. Y. Morrison The following descriptions are recorded from observation notes made of the living collection during 1951-1952: Schwerdtfeger's '51 Circumlobata X Rex. Large leaves on tall erect petioles fairly brown tinted toward fore leaves, reflexed somewhat giving umbrella-like effect. Center dark green but showing only along the major veins. Leaves almost completely covered with pale silver-green that breaks into large dots near margin that is deep green. This is not a named clone.
Lineage
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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