Cultivar

B. ‘Longxing’

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Longxing’
Originator: Wen-Xiu Tang
Date of Origin: 2017
Publication Date: 2020
Place: Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gaulin, Guangxi 541006
Country: China
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. cirrosa
Male Parent: B. bamaensis
ABS No: 1035
Publication Reference: The Begonian, 87 p133-4, Sept 2020

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Parents

Female parent

B. cirrosa

Male parent

B. bamaensis

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Longxing’

Female parent

B. cirrosa

Etymology: Latin cirrosus (curled hair) after the indumentum; B. crispula Te-Tsun Yü ex Irmscher, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21:38. 1951, non Brade. 1950.—L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 52:442. 1983.

Male parent

B. bamaensis

Etymology: from the type locality Bama Yaozu Zizhixian; Begonia bamaensis has a somatic chromosome number of 2n = 30 (Figure 6), which agrees with all other members of Begonia sect. Coelocentrum for which chromosome numbers were reported (Ku et al., 2004; Peng et al., 2005a, 2005b; Liu et al., 2005; Fang et al., 2006; Ku et al., 2006; Peng et al., 2007).

Descendants

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