Cultivar

B. ‘Lexington’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Lexington’
Originator: Elinor V. Slocum
Date of Origin: 1950
Publication Date: 1952
Place: El Monte, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Sunderbruchii’
ABS No: 24
Publication Reference: ABS;B54 a130;crc-p

Plant

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Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

Male parent

Not recorded

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Lexington’

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

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. barkeri

B. peponifolia A. T. Brongniart, ex F. Cels, Ann. Fl. Pomone :105. 1842.; B. peponifolia A. T. Brongniart ex F. Cels var. beta A. T. Brongniart ex F. Cels, Ann. Fl. Pomone :106. 1842.; B. peponifolia hort.ex Schlechtendal, Linnaea 24:180. 1851.; B. megaphylla A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:133. 1859.; B. macrophylla hort. Berol ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :216. 1855; Begoniac. :96. 1855, pro syn. Gireoudia B. macrophylla Klotzsch var. concolor Klotzsch,1855 —J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:496. 1984.; B. peponifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :216. 1855.;B. peponifolia Visiani ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):341. 1864.;B. macrophylla Klotzsch var concolor (Klotzsch) J. Doorenbos ex F. A. Barkley & J. Golding, Sp. Begoniaceae, ed. 2 :74. 1974. —fide J. Doorenbos in litteris, J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:496. 1984.; B. macrophylla Klotzsch var discolor (Klotzsch) J. Doorenbos ex F. A. Barkley & J. Golding. 1974.—fide J. Doorenbos in litteris [= B. peponifolia Visiani ex A. de Candolle. 1864.] —J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:497. 1984.

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Leslie Lynn’

Male parent: B. glandulosa

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

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