Cultivar

B. ‘Alice Faye’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Alice Faye’
Originator: Lyla Kilpatrick
Date of Origin: 1988
Publication Date: 1995
Place: Perth, WA
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Male Parent: B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
ABS No: 1085
AABS No: 73
Publication Reference: B 99 p165; B73 d084; BEG
Photo References: Beg 90 p151 Jul/Aug 2023;

Plant

Plant Habit: Upright
Plant Height: Low 0.5m
Stem Type: Upright
Stem Habit: Few Branched

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Alice Faye’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Jet Rose’

Male parent: B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

Propagation Method: Stem cuttings; also leaf-petiole cuttings (slow), a genetic trait from the male parent