Cultivar
B. ‘Ripples’
Photos
1 photo
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
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Broken Hill’
- 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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Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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