Cultivar

B. ‘Peacock’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Peacock’
Originator: Leslie Woodriff
Date of Origin: 1947
Place: McKinleyville, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. ‘Cardoza Gardens’
Publication Reference: LW; WBHC-WW; A.B.Graf: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants Hardcover, 1978.
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :86. 1980; The Begonian, Oct 1960; The Begonian, May 1947; The Begonian, Jul 1948; Begonias, Misono 1974: 129 (212);

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. ‘Cardoza Gardens’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Peacock’

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. ‘Cardoza Gardens’

Is this the same as B. ‘Cordoza gardens’?;

Female parent

B. ‘Ranee’

B. ‘Rajah’;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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