Cultivar

B. ‘Mecca’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Mecca’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Date of Origin: 1981
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Male Parent: B. ‘Glory of St. Albans’
Publication Reference: MLT2

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Male parent

B. ‘Glory of St. Albans’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Mecca’

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Etymology: referring to the flowers with 2 tepals; B.malabarica Lamarck var. dipetala Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. :128. 1859. —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:655. 1979. —Irmscher, Pareys Blumengart. ed. 2 :78. 1960.; malabarica A. de Candolle. 1864, non Lamarck, 1785.; tuberosa herb. Wight ex Wallich,1831; tuberosa herb. Heyne ex A. de C.,1864 non lamarck,1785; bipetala Loddiges in Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:193. 1840. —Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 9:59. 1841. errore typographico pro dipetala Graham. 1828.; malabarica auct. non Lamarck: A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):392. 1864. —J. Doorenbos, Begonian 67:170. 2000. Circulated incorrectly as ‘Mrs. W. S. Kimball’;u044

Male parent

B. ‘Glory of St. Albans’

Two forms exist - Pink and Red. The Japanese call the pink form B. ‘Magatama’ and the red form B. ‘Totenko’

Female parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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