Cultivar

B. ‘Gretel’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Gretel’
Originator: Elsie Frey
Date of Origin: 1957
Publication Date: 1958
Place: Santa Barbara, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. incarnata var. incarnata
Male Parent: B. ‘Moss Agate’
ABS No: 132
Publication Reference: ABS;B58 a015;crc-p; WBHC-WW

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. incarnata var. incarnata

Male parent

B. ‘Moss Agate’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Gretel’

Female parent

B. incarnata var. incarnata

B. insignis Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 11: .1826-28, non visus ; Bot. Mag. 56:pl. 2900. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. martiana auct. non Link & Otto: Schlechtendal, Linnaea 5:604. 1830. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. ciliata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:193. 1840, non Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. 1825, pro syn. B. insignis Graham. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. aucibifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :122. 1854—A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. subpeltata hort. ex Regel, Gartenfl. 15:358. 1866, non Wight. 1852;

Male parent

B. ‘Moss Agate’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. ‘Kathleyana’

Female parent

B. ‘Mrs. H. G. Moon’

Male parent

B. cathayana

Etymology: from the old English name “Cathay” for China; B. bowringiana hort. Sander, Gard. Chron. III 33:245, pl.. 1903, non Champion. 1852. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:524. 1939;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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