Cultivar

B. ‘Morning Mist’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Morning Mist’
Originator: Hazel Burley
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Brisbane, Qld.
Country: Australia
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. imperialis var. imperialis
Male Parent: B. ‘Sir Percy’
ABS No: 504
AABS No: 5
Publication Reference: ABS; B76 a077; YBG
Article References: The Begonian (43) March 1976, p. 77-79.
Photo References: Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

Description: No. 504 - Begonia (B. imperialis X B. 'Sir Percy') 'Morning Mist' Developed by Hazel Burley (address above) in 1973, this rhizomatous plant of distinctive foliage is closest in color to B. 'Sir Percy', but with a different, star-shaped leaf, green, washed with sparkling silver, 6 x 4 ½”, with a rough, hairy margin and nearly smooth texture; nerves 6; petioles 4-5"; stipules colorless when young and non-existent on mature plant. No flowers to date. Registered August 8, 1975.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. imperialis var. imperialis

Male parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Morning Mist’

Female parent

B. imperialis var. imperialis

B. imperialis Lemaire var. brunnea Lemaire. 1861;

Male parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Female parent

B. ‘Silver Star’

Female parent

B. carolineifolia

B. rotata Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :11. 1853. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864;

Male parent

B. ludicra

B. liebmannii A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):345. 1864. " liebmanni." —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Fieldiana: Bot. 24:174. 1961.; B. reptans Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :5. 1853, non Bentham. 1840.; B. repens Liebmann ex Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. 1:497. 1880 non Lamarck. 1785;

Male parent

B. ‘Speculata’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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