Cultivar
B. ‘Longhorn’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Longhorn’
- Originator
- Wallace W. Wagner
- Date of Origin
- 1975
- Place
- Silverton, Or.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. bowerae var. bowerae
- Male Parent
- B. ‘Eppley’
- ABS No
- 517
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B76 a155
- Article References
- The Begonian (43) June 1976, p. 155-169.
Plant
- Description
- No. 517 - Begonia (B. bowerae X B. 'Eppley') 'Longhorn' Originated by Wallace W. Wagner, 3487 Cascade Highway NE, Silverton, Oregon 97381, this rhizomatous plant was developed in March 1972, first bloomed in December 1972, and was distributed in November 1975. The plant looks much like B. bowerae, but has pink flowers with dark-pink spots on them, which bloom in winter. The spinach-colored leaves have long, uneven heart shape, 2 1/8 x 1 ¼”, and dentate ciliate margins; texture medium; nerves 7; petioles, flesh colored, spotted red, hairy; stipules, triangular. Registered October 21, 1975.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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