Cultivar

B. ‘Josma’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Josma’
Originator: Mickey Meyer
Date of Origin: 1979
Publication Date: 1986
Place: Tathra, NSW.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Sir Percy’
Male Parent: B. unknown
ABS No: 900
Publication Reference: ABS;B86 a130;B86 d108
Article References: The Begonian (53) July 1986, p. 108.

Plant

Description: Begonia 'Josma' No. 900-Begonia 'Sir Percy' x unknown 'Josma' Rhizomatous with silver-spotted reddish green leaves. The leaf blades are 4 1/2" x 3 1/2" and almost round with pointed tips, entire margins, and crisp texture, and are borne on long petioles. The originator reports that the seed parent was insect pollinated. Originated in 1979 by Mickey Meyer (address above); no bloom reported; no distribution reported. Registered May 9, 1986.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Male parent

B. unknown

Ancestry tree

Female parent

Female parent

Female parent

B. rotata Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :11. 1853. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864;

Male parent

B. ludicra

B. liebmannii A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):345. 1864. " liebmanni." —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Fieldiana: Bot. 24:174. 1961.; B. reptans Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :5. 1853, non Bentham. 1840.; B. repens Liebmann ex Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. 1:497. 1880 non Lamarck. 1785;

Male parent

B. ‘Speculata’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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