Cultivar

B. ‘Mrs. Townsend’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Mrs. Townsend’
Originator: James Veitch and Sons
Date of Origin: 1895
Place: Chelsea
Country: England, UK
Region: Europe
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia
Male Parent: B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
Synonyms and Comments: B. ‘Heracleicotyle’; B. ‘Mrs A.C. Townsend’
Publication Reference: GC;crc-p; WBHC-WW
Article References: Beg. 3:5. Jul. 1936

Plant

Other Features: Basket Plant

Lineage

2 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. ‘Heracleicotyle’; B. ‘Mrs A.C. Townsend’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Mrs. Townsend’

B. ‘Heracleicotyle’; B. ‘Mrs A.C. Townsend’

Female parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Descendants

2 recorded children

As female parent

No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.

As male parent

B. ‘Burgundy Queen’

Female parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’

B. ‘Ella Keyes’

Female parent: B. ‘Feastii’

Culture

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