Cultivar

B. ‘Kathleyana’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Kathleyana’
Date of Origin: 1930
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. ‘Mrs. H. G. Moon’
Male Parent: B. cathayana
Publication Reference: K; WBHC-WW; A.B.Graf: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants Hardcover, 1978.
Photo References: Image source: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 121 (197);

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Mrs. H. G. Moon’

Male parent

B. cathayana

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Kathleyana’

Female parent

B. ‘Mrs. H. G. Moon’

Female 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;

Male parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Male parent

B. cathayana

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Sunayama’

Male parent: B. ‘Spiral King’

As male parent

B. ‘Maydine’

Female parent: B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. ‘Moss Agate’

Female parent: B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

Culture

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