Cultivar

B. ‘Letty’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Letty’
Originator: Dorothy S.Behrends
Date of Origin: 1951
Publication Date: 1953
Place: Encinitas, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Lettonica’
ABS No: 49
Publication Reference: ABS;B53 a266

Plant

No populated fields in this section.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lettonica’

Male parent

Not recorded

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Letty’

Female parent

B. ‘Lettonica’

Female parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. nelumbiifolia

B. deryckxiana Lemaire, Hort. Universel 5:355. 1844. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864.; B. hernandiifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Konigel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin:125. 1854 "hernandiaefolia”, non W.J. Hooker. 1852 pro syn. Gireoudia nelumbiifolia Klotzsch. 1854. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864. 1854 non Hooker W.J.,1852; B. peltata Sessé & Mociño, Fl. Mex. ed. 2 :219 . 1894 non Otto & Dietrich. 1841.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Contr. Gray Herb. 154:27, 30. 1945.; B. caudilimba C de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):9. 1919. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:15, pl. 2. 1946;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

No populated fields in this section.