Cultivar

B. ‘Orb’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Orb’
Originator: Bob Cole
Date of Origin: 1979
Place: Reseda, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. hidalgensis
Male Parent: B. nelumbiifolia
ABS No: 793
Publication Reference: ABS;B80 a280

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. hidalgensis

Male parent

B. nelumbiifolia

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Orb’

Female parent

B. hidalgensis

B. glandulosa A.DC. ex Hook.,Bot. Mag. 87: t. 5256 1861; B. dayii hort.;

Male parent

B. nelumbiifolia

B. deryckxiana Lemaire, Hort. Universel 5:355. 1844. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864.; B. hernandiifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Konigel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin:125. 1854 "hernandiaefolia”, non W.J. Hooker. 1852 pro syn. Gireoudia nelumbiifolia Klotzsch. 1854. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):343. 1864. 1854 non Hooker W.J.,1852; B. peltata Sessé & Mociño, Fl. Mex. ed. 2 :219 . 1894 non Otto & Dietrich. 1841.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Contr. Gray Herb. 154:27, 30. 1945.; B. caudilimba C de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):9. 1919. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:15, pl. 2. 1946;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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