Cultivar

B. ‘IAC’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘IAC’
Originator: Instituto Agronômico de Campinas - IAC
Date of Origin: 1936
Publication Date: 2022
Place: Sao Paulo
Country: Brazil
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. maculata var. maculata
Male Parent: B. aconitifolia
Publication Reference: LORENZI, Harri. in video "Sugestões de plantas para interior - Parte 2" (YouTube, Flay Channel), 2022
Article References: https://florestanoapartamento.blogspot.com/2022/08/begonia-iac.html

Plant

Description: Stem base is a swollen caudex
Growth Rate: Fast in growing season
Plant Habit: Upright
Plant Spread: Large
Plant Height: Very Tall 2m>
Stem Type: Upright
Stem Habit: Few Branched
Other Features: Leaves alternate
Internodal Distance: Long
Sun Tolerance: Some sun
Plant Hardiness: very hardy

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. maculata var. maculata

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

Ancestry tree

B. ‘IAC’

Female parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. argyrostima Fischer ex Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Sel. :23, pl. 10. 1821.—Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2:626. 1825; B. punctata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot.. ed. 2 1:194. 1840.; B. albo-picta; B. aculeata Walpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; Repert. Bot. Syst. 5:767. 1846. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):354. 1861. [= B. maculata Raddi var. argentea (Van Houtte) A. de Candolle. 1861. — E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):583. 2005.; B. maculata var. argentea (van Houtte ex Klotzsch) A. de Candolle. 1861;

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

Propagation Method: Stem cuttings, mallet cuttings, tip cuttings. Large plants can be divided.
Comments: very hardy, easy cultivation
Known In Cultivation: Very common all around Brazil