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Cultivar

B. ‘Ripples’

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Identity

Genus
Begonia
Name
B. ‘Ripples’
Originator
Hazel Burley
Date of Origin
1974
Publication Date
1981
Place
Brisbane, Qld.
Country
Australia
Region
Asia
Plant Type
Rhizomatous
Male Parent
B. Universe
ABS No
818
Publication Reference
ABS;B81 a121
Article References
The Begonian (49) May 1989, p. 121-3.
Photo References
Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin Krempin Books, Queensland Australia

Plant

Description
Begonia 'Ripples' No. 818-Begonia 'Broken Hill' x 'Universe' 'Ripples' Rhizomatous. The 5" x 4” leaves yellowish green with chocolate spider web markings running across even the veins above and below-cup upward and are deeply 7-lobed with the lobes acuminate and the coarsely serrate to cusped, slightly wavy margin curling upward. The 7 palmate veins are prominent below. Petioles are pale red and slightly hairy; stipules pale green. Flowers are pink in cymes held on erect 8" peduncles in summer (in Australia); capsules are 3-winged. Originated in 1977 by Hazel Burley (address above); first bloomed in 1979; first distributed in 1978. Tested by Bernard Yorke and Mickey Meyer (as above). Registered March 27, 1980.

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