Cultivar

B. ‘Shirotae’

Photos

1 photo

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Shirotae’
Originator: Hiroko Imamura
Date of Origin: 1990
Publication Date: 1996
Place: Hiroshima-shi
Country: Japan
Region: Asia
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Lenore Olivier’
Male Parent: B. maculata var. maculata
ABS No: 963
Publication Reference: Begonian vol 66 p 5 Jan/Feb 1999
Photo References: The Begonian, Jan-Feb 1999

Plant

Plant Height: Tall

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Shirotae’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. argyrostima Fischer ex Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Sel. :23, pl. 10. 1821.—Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2:626. 1825; B. punctata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot.. ed. 2 1:194. 1840.; B. albo-picta; B. aculeata Walpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; Repert. Bot. Syst. 5:767. 1846. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):354. 1861. [= B. maculata Raddi var. argentea (Van Houtte) A. de Candolle. 1861. — E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):583. 2005.; B. maculata var. argentea (van Houtte ex Klotzsch) A. de Candolle. 1861;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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