Cultivar

B. ‘Joyce Allison’

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Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Joyce Allison’
Originator: Hazel Burley
Date of Origin: 1974
Publication Date: 1981
Place: Brisbane, Qld.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Cane-like - Superba
Female Parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Male Parent: B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’
ABS No: 817
Publication Reference: ABS; B81 a121; AUST
Article References: The Begonian (49) May 1989, p. 121-3.
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Description: Begonia ‘Joyce Allison' No. 817-Begonia 'Zulu' x 'Elizabeth Lockhart' 'Joyce Allison' Cane-like, Superba type, with vigorous 4' stems. Leaves, 10" long, are glabrous and shiny deep green with faint white splashes between the 5 green veins above, the veins faintly ted underneath; the wavy red margin is three-lobed on one side and one-lobed on the other. Petioles are green; stipules slightly red. Slightly salmon pink flowers, 1)4" across, hang in full showy trusses on reddish, 2"-3" peduncles nearly all year, but more abundantly in summer. Male flowers are 2-tepaled; females 5 with 2 tepals wider than the other 3. The seed parent is not the Tuberhybrida cultivar named B. 'Zulu', but is shrub-like. Originated in 1974 by Hazel Burley, 191 Simpson Road, Bardon, Brisbane 4065, Australia; first bloomed in 1975; first distributed in 1976. Tested by Bernard Yorke of Brisbane and Mickey Meyer of Lathra, Australia. Registered March 27, 1980.
Stem Type: Upright