Cultivar
B. ‘Raquel Wood’
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Raquel Wood’
- Originator
- Belva Nelson Kusler
- Date of Origin
- 1973
- Place
- Siren, Wi.
- Country
- USA
- Region
- America
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Bow-Nigra’
- Male Parent
- B. manicata var. aureomaculata
- ABS No
- 385
- Publication Reference
- ABS;B74 a043;B91 r045
- Article References
- The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :62. 1980;
Plant
- Description
- No. 385 - Begonia (B. 'Bow Nigra' x B. manicata aureo-maculata) 'Raquel Wood' Belva N. Kusler, address above, originated and distributed this medium-leaved rhizomatous in 1961, which first bloomed in 1962 and named in Jan. 1967 The Begonian 34: 12. Leaves are ovate, oblique, apex sharp acute, base cut lobes overlapped, 4 x 21/2", pine green above with chocolate at margin and between veins, below cardinal red; margin dentate, ciliate, weakly undulate; texture chartaceous, shining; veins palmate, evident; petioles terete, scabrous with red hairs, cuffed at attachment, 21/2"; stipules triangular, hair-pointed, marcescent. Flowers dark-pink to rose-red, late winter and spring. Registered Oct. 9, 1973.
Lineage
Parents
Ancestry tree
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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