Cultivar

B. ‘Lois Burks’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Lois Burks’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Date of Origin: 1982
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Mandarin’
Male Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Synonyms and Comments: Marketed in Australia under the name : B. Tango; male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei. Known and sold incorrectly as B. ‘Lois Burke’.
Publication Reference: MLT2; B99 p223; B96 r128;

Plant

Plant Height: Low
Pests Diseases: susceptible to powdery mildew, the breeding with B. dregei a causitive factor

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Mandarin’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Marketed in Australia under the name : B. Tango; male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei. Known and sold incorrectly as B. ‘Lois Burke’.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Lois Burks’

Marketed in Australia under the name : B. Tango; male parent cited as the “partita” form of B. dregei. Known and sold incorrectly as B. ‘Lois Burke’.

Female parent

B. ‘Mandarin’

Unresolved

Male 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;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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