Cultivar
B. ‘Question Mark’
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Question Mark’
- Originator
- Belva Nelson Kusler
- Date of Origin
- 1973
- Place
- Siren, Wi.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Cane-like
- Female Parent
- B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
- Male Parent
- B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
- ABS No
- 373
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B74 a043
- Article References
- The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :34. 1980;
Plant
- Description
- No. 373 - Begonia (B. hydrocotylifolia x B. 'Lenore Olivier') 'Question Mark' This very compact, cane-like cultivar was developed and first bloomed in 1967 and first distributed in 1971 by Belva N. Kusler, address above. Name published in 38:283, Dec. 1971. Leaves above are forest-green, below frosty spring green; ovate, oblique, base cordate, apex short-acuminate; 7½ x 4 in.; margin undulate, sparsely denticulate, ciliate; texture chartaceous, shining, glabrous; veins palmate, evident; petioles terete, pilose, 1¾"; stipules broadly triangular, marcescent. Everblooming, flowers rose-pink; 1½ x 11/4 in., compound dichasium. Registered Sept. 12, 1973.
- Plant Height
- Low
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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