Cultivar

B. ‘Jiao Yue’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Jiao Yue’
Originator: You-Fang Ding and Bo-Yi Chen
Date of Origin: 2017
Publication Date: 2021
Place: Xiamen Botanical Garden, #25 Huyuan Rd., Xiamen, Fujian 361001
Country: China
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. formosana
Male Parent: B. unknown rex cv.
Synonyms and Comments: Registered 17-1-2021
ABS No: 1042
Publication Reference: Beg. 88 p.50 Mar/Apr 2021
Photo References: Beg. 88 p.50 Mar/Apr 2021

Plant

Stem Type: Rhizome
Other Features: Not heat tolerant

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. formosana

Male parent

B. unknown rex cv.

Registered 17-1-2021

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Jiao Yue’

Registered 17-1-2021

Female parent

B. formosana

Etymology: derived from Ilha Formosa ‘(Beautiful Island)’ a Portugese name for Taiwan; B. sinensis auct. non A. de Candolle: Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Form. 24:46. 1896.; B. laciniata auct. non Roxburgh: Forbes & Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23:322. 1888.—Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977 [= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. laciniata Roxburgh var. formosana Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30:124. 1911.—Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977.[= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. laciniata auct. non Roxburgh: Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 22:166. 1906. —Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 30:124. 1911 [= B. laciniata Roxburgh var. formosana Hayata. 1911.] —Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai, Fl. Taiwan 3:795. 1977[= B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune var. formosana, 1961.] — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:174. 2007.; B. tarokoensis M. J. Lai. 1990.; B. formosana (Hayata) Masamune f. albomaculata Tang–Shui Liu & Ming–Jou Lai. 1977.

Male parent

B. unknown rex cv.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Known In Cultivation: Not commercially released @ May 2021
Original Botanical Description or Link to: The Begonian, 88 Mar/Apr 2021