Cultivar

B. ‘Mephistopheles’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Mephistopheles’
Originator: Bob Cole
Date of Origin: 1979
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Reseda, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. ‘Witch's Lore’
Male Parent: B. ‘Pam Sue’
ABS No: 783
Publication Reference: ABS;B80 a280

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Witch's Lore’

Male parent

B. ‘Pam Sue’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Mephistopheles’

Female parent

B. ‘Witch's Lore’

Female parent

B. cathayana

Etymology: from the old English name “Cathay” for China; B. bowringiana hort. Sander, Gard. Chron. III 33:245, pl.. 1903, non Champion. 1852. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:524. 1939;

Male parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Male parent

B. ‘Pam Sue’

Female parent

B. ‘Changeant’

Male parent

B. ‘Curly Stardust’

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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