Cultivar
B. ‘Mount Saint Helens’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Mount Saint Helens’
- Originator
- Goldie Frost
- Date of Origin
- 1981
- Publication Date
- 1986
- Place
- Garden Grove, Ca.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Colonel Gale’
- Male Parent
- B. carrieae
- Synonyms and Comments
- Mt. St. Helens
- ABS No
- 912
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B86 a162;B86 d162
- Article References
- The Begonian (53) Nov. 1986, p. 162-3
Plant
- Description
- Begonia 'Mount Saint Helens' No. 912-Begonia 'Colonel Gale' x carrieae 'Mount Saint Helens' Rhizomatous with erect rhizome, large, red-edged, dark green leaves, and large bunches of airy flowers. Leathery leaf blades, 12" x 10", are shallowly lobed and slightly serrate, with 5 main veins. Light green petioles are clothed with patterned scales; stipules are not persistent. Pink 2 tepaled male and 4-tepaled female flowers are 1 1/2 " across in large clusters on 36" peduncles February into May. The red coloring on the leaf edge and some red splotching underneath distinguish the cultivar from others. Originated in 1981 by Goldie Frost (address above); first bloomed in 1982; first distributed in 1982. Tested by Dorothy Behrends of Encinitas, CA. Name published in Mildred L. Thompson, Begonias: 1984 Update, p. 21. Registered Aug. 9, 1986.
- Stem Type
- Erect
Lineage
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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