Cultivar

B. ‘Kylie’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Kylie’
Originator: Mickey Meyer
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Tathra, NSW.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Weltonensis’
Male Parent: B. unknown
ABS No: 339
Publication Reference: ABS;B73 a088
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.

Plant

Description: No. 339-Begonia ('Weltoniensis' X unknown) 'Kylie' Developed by Mrs. Mickey Meyer (address above) in 1971, first bloomed in 1972, and first distributed in 1973, this cane-like begonia, intermediate and shrubby, has roundish, fluted leaves, 2 x 3 inches, margin smooth, with slight nicks, texture light and thin; apple green, with red at edge. Blooms throughout summer in a drooping array of small white flowers on quite short stems. Available from Mrs. Meyer. Registered Mar. 6, 1973.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Weltonensis’

Male parent

B. unknown

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Kylie’

Female parent

B. ‘Weltonensis’

B. ‘Weltoniensis’;

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. sutherlandii ssp. sutherlandii

B. flava Binns, H. C. L. M.:23. 1968, non visus, non W. Marais. 1956.; B. snitcheri hort, Horticulture 25, 7:549. 1929, non visus. —Buxton, Check List Begonias :222, 1857; B. buttonii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:178, pl. 11:fig. 1. 1961. Natal. Fig. 5.19. —Hilliard in Ross, Fl. South Afr. 22:141. 1976.; B. dissecta Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:178, pl. 11:fig. 2. 1961.; B. gueinziana Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:177. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner var. gueinziana A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):385.1864.; B. sutherlandii Hooker J.D. var. minuscula Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:170, pl. 10:fig. 1. 1961.; B. sutherlandii Hooker J.D. var. subcuneata Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:164, pl. 8:fig. 2. 1961.; B. sutherlandii Binns, H.C.L.M. :23. 1968, non visus;

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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