Species
B. olbia
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. olbia
- Author
- Kerchove, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè
- Publication Date
- 1883
- Date of Origin
- 1883
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- America
- Section
- Latistigma
- Chr 2n
- 56
- Plant Type
- Thick Stem
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. platanifolia Schott var. ohlendorffiana H. G. Reichenbach f., Gard. Chron. II 10:780. 1878;
- Reference
- Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 9:241, pl. 1883; JGSL9/08; The Begonian, Jan 1976;
- Article References
- The Gardeners' Chronicle, v. 20, 1883;
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :30. 1980; The Begonian, Jan 1976; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;
Plant
- Description
- The Gardeners' chronicle, v. 20, 1883 B. olbia: Under this name a new Begonia has been introduced from Brazil by M. Pynaert Van Geert, of Ghent (fig. 128). It is slated to resemble B. diadema in habit. The leaves are deeply and irregularly toothed above, blackish-green in color, spotted with white, and thinly covered with small reddish hairs. The plant flowers freely, and produces an abundance of white flowers, and was so highly appreciated at the exhibition held at Ostend in August last by the Royal Flora Society of Brussels that it was awarded the 1st prize for new plants.
- Plant Habit
- Low and bushy
Lineage
12 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. platanifolia Schott var. ohlendorffiana H. G. Reichenbach f., Gard. Chron. II 10:780. 1878;
Descendants
12 recorded children
As female parent
5
Male parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male parent: B. corallina
Male parent: B. ‘Richardson's Favorite’
Male parent: B. lubbersii
Male parent: B. malabarica var. malabarica
As male parent
7
Female parent: B. albopicta
Female parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Female parent: B. maculata var. wightii
Female parent: B. ‘Compacta’
Female parent: B. ‘Argenteo-Guttata’
Female parent: B. corallina
Female parent: B. coccinea
Culture
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