Cultivar
B. ‘Perle de Lorraine’
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Perle de Lorraine’
- Originator
- Lemoine
- Date of Origin
- 1901
- Place
- France
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Thick Stem
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Polyantha’
- Male Parent
- B. strigillosa
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. ‘Bertha von Lothringen’; B. ‘Pearl Lorraine’; B. ‘Pearl de Lorraine’;
- Publication Reference
- RHB; GT; B80 r192;
- Article References
- The Garden, v. 61, (1902);
- Photo References
- The Begonian, Apr 1940; The Begonian, Jul 1948; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;
Plant
- Description
- The Garden, v. 61, (1902) NEW FIBROUS- ROOTED BEGONIAS. The subjects of our illustrations are two good new forms raised by Messrs. Lemoine. Perle Lorraine is a hybrid of B. polyantha and B. Daedalea, the latter a winter flowering kind, with handsome foliage. The plant has a height of some 18 inches, and is about as much in width, with finger-thick, fleshy stems branching from all the axils. The bright green leaves are spotted and clouded with black on the upper side, and are of a lighter green, spotted with red, underneath. The flowers are two-petalled and carried in lax panicles of from thirty to forty blooms; they are white, a little rosy to the center, and last for nearly forty days. The blooming season begins in January and continues to the end of April.
Lineage
Parents
B. ‘Bertha von Lothringen’; B. ‘Pearl Lorraine’; B. ‘Pearl de Lorraine’;
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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