Species
B. pearcei
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. pearcei
- Author
- J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
- Publication Date
- 1865
- Date of Origin
- 1865
- Place
- La Paz?
- Country
- Bolivia
- Region
- America
- Section
- Australes
- Chr 2n
- 26
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Reference
- Bot. Mag. 91:pl. 5545. 1865; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Beg. 3:4. Jul. 1936; Tebbitt, Begonias 5:232-35. 2005;
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :69. 1980; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.210. 2005; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;
Plant
- Description
- Curtis Botanical Magazine v. 91 = ser. 3, v. 21, 1865 B. pearcei: A very beautiful species, nearly allied in botanical characters to B. cinnabarina (Bot. Mag. 4483), introduced from La Paz by Messrs. Veitch, where it was obtained by Mr. Pearce, whose name well deserves to be associated with it. The foliage is very pretty, the leaves being of a dark velvet-green above, dull-red traversed by pale-green nerves beneath, and in agreeable contrast with the rather large, bright-yellow, overtopping flowers. Description. Stem succulent, pubescent, leafy. Leaves obliquely ovate, acuminate, cordate at the base, irregularly crenate-serrate, on petioles of about half their length, dark velvet-green and nearly glabrous above, dull red beneath excepting the nerves. Peduncles erect, two-flowered, exceeding the leaves. Bracts rotundate or elliptical, entire, pubescent or ciliate. Flowers yellow, about an inch to an inch and a quarter across; male fl. Perianth quadripartite, two outer segments ample, rotundate, two inner rather smaller, about equal in length to the outer; female fl. with a quinquepartite perianth, lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse. Stamens indefinite, free; filaments filiform; anthers obovate, obtuse, two-celled. Ovary three-winged, three-celled, with indefinite ovules on each side of the forked placentas; styles spirally stigmatose; capsule not seen; Begonia pearcei Gartenflora. Erlangen: F. Enke, 1852-1940. Jahrg. 15 (1866): Page 83 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123886 Translated using Google Translate Begonia Pearcei Hook. Begoniaceae. - A beautiful new Begonia, which Pearce collected in La Paz and Veitch. Stem upright, beaded, soft-haired. Leaves fairly large, oblong heart-shaped oval, pointed, adduced notched, above, metallic-green and nerve-lined, below red. Flower-stalks longer than the leaves, two-lobed. Flowers big sulfur yellow. The B. cinnabarina related. It is used as a decoration plant with beautiful leaves and also because of the large yellow flowers, to the very remarkable novelties for warm house. (Table 5545); Bot. Mag. t. 5545; Veitch’s' Catalog. of Pl. 1866, fig. 5, col. pl. This species was introduced from La Paz through Richard Pearce. The leaves are very beautiful, of a dark velvet-green above, dull red traversed with pale green nerves beneath, an agreeable contrast to the bright yellow flowers. The source of all the yellow-flowered forms, it entered largely into the production of the summer-flowering tuberous varieties.
- Plant Height
- Low
Lineage
50 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
50 recorded children
As female parent
26
Male parent: B. ‘Sedenii’
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. grandis ssp. evansiana
Male parent: B. ‘Sedenii’
Male parent: B. ‘Rosaeflora’
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. subpeltata
Male parent: B. ‘Sedenii’
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unidentified cv.
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. ‘Apricot Bells’
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. semperflorens
Male parent: B. ‘Sedenii’
Male parent: B. socotrana
Male parent: B. veitchii
Male parent: B. ‘Mont Blanc’
Male parent: B. unknown
Male parent: B. solananthera
As male parent
24
Female parent: B. boliviensis var. boliviensis
Female parent: B. ‘Mission Bells’
Female parent: B. ‘Rosaeflora’
Female parent: B. veitchii
Female parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Female parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Female parent: B. boliviensis var. boliviensis
Female parent: B. socotrana
Female parent: B. boliviensis var. boliviensis
Female parent: B. ‘Gloire de Nancy’
Female parent: B. ‘Hagagasumi’
Female parent: B. ‘Orange Rubra’
Female parent: B. ‘Gloire de Nancy’
Female parent: B. ‘Orange Rubra’
Female parent: B. socotrana
Female parent: B. ‘Gloire de Nancy’
Female parent: B. ‘Gloire de Nancy’
Female parent: B. ‘Orange Rubra’
Female parent: B. schmidtiana
Female parent: B. veitchii
Female parent: B. veitchii
Female parent: B. ‘Orange Rubra’
Female parent: B. socotrana
Female parent: B. sutherlandii ssp. sutherlandii
Culture
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