Cultivar
B. ‘Mini Merry’
Photos
4 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Mini Merry’
- Originator
- Leslie Woodriff
- Date of Origin
- 1979
- Place
- McKinleyville, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rex Cultorum
- Female Parent
- B. unknown
- Male Parent
- B. unknown
- ABS No
- 755
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B80 a140;B91 r025
- Article References
- The Begonian (47) May 1980, p. 140-1.
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Mini Merry' No. 755-Begonia unknown x unknown 'Mini Merry' Rex Cultorum group. Non-spiraled 2 ½” x 3" leaves have a black center with red and green, silver-spotted zones, subentire margin, smooth surface, 6 veins, red petioles, and white stipules. Flowers are light pink, 1", with 4 male and 5 female tepals; they are borne in 2- to 3-flowered clusters on 5" peduncles in the spring. Small, brightly colored leaves are less than half the size of leaves on B. 'Merry Christmas'. Originated in 1978 by Leslie Woodriff (address above); first bloomed in 1978; first distributed in 1979. Registered Sept. 8, 1979.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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