Cultivar

B. ‘Kathleen Meyer’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Kathleen Meyer’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Date of Origin: 1983
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Mandarin’
Male Parent: B. homonyma
Publication Reference: MLT2;B93 r048;B99 r103

Plant

Description: Clusters of coral-orange flowers produced continuously. Very small dark bronzy leaves. Compact, free branching miniature.
Plant Height: Low

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Mandarin’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. homonyma

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Kathleen Meyer’

Female parent

B. ‘Mandarin’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. homonyma

sinuata E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1 836, non Wallich ex Meisner. 1836. ; caffra Meisner, Linnaea, 14:502, "1840". 1 841. ; uncinata hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :124. 1854 . ; dregei Otto & Dietrich var. caffra A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):384. 1 864.— Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136. 1961 [= caffra Meisner. 1841.] —Burtt, Notes Roy. Gard. Edinburgh 32:274. 1973. ; dregei Otto & Dietrich var. sinuata A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):384. 1864.— Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136. 1961 [= caffra Meisner. 1841.] —Burtt, Notes Roy. Gard. Edinburgh 32:274. 1973. 1 864; favargeri Rechinger, Ann. K. K. Naturhist. HofMus. 20:33. 1905—Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136, 1961; [=caffra Meisner var. favargeri Irmscher. 1961.—Hilliard in Ross, Fl. South Afr. 22:141. 1976 ; rudatisii Ir mscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:129. 1961 ; caffra Drege ex A. de Candolle, Prodr.15(1):384 . 1864.; sinuata Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3731. 1839, non Wallich ex Meisner. 1836.

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Lucky Star’

Male parent: B. dichroa

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

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