Cultivar
B. ‘Marjorie Sibley’
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Marjorie Sibley’
- Originator
- Belva Nelson Kusler
- Date of Origin
- 1973
- Place
- Siren, Wi.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Cane-like
- Female Parent
- B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
- Male Parent
- B. ‘Kusler #2’
- ABS No
- 382
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B74 a043
- Article References
- The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :26. 1980;
Plant
- Description
- No. 382 - Begonia (B. hydrocotylifolia x B. Kusler No. 2) 'Marjorie Sibley' The very dark green leaves, almost black, extending upwards on long petioles, flared like a funnel, with raised portions near the margin like blisters, characterize this intermediate cane originated by Belva N. Kusler, address above, in 1967 when it first bloomed white, first distributed 1969, and named in May 1970 Begonian 3 7: 111. Leaves are elliptic, apex round obtuse, base cut lobes overlapped, 7½ x ~/'; margin entire, undulate with downward curve; texture coriaceous, glabrous; veins palmate very evident, raised, lighter green; petioles half-terete, pilose, 4" long; stipules triangular, marcesent; below dark blood-red. Everblooming. Registered Oct. 9, 1973.
- Plant Height
- Medium
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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