Cultivar

B. ‘Silver Day’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Silver Day’
Originator: Susie Zug
Date of Origin: 1952
Publication Date: 1954
Place: San Dimas, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. glandulosa
Male Parent: B. ‘Sir Percy’
ABS No: 102
Publication Reference: ABS;B54 a208

Plant

Plant Habit: Creeping

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. glandulosa

Male parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Silver Day’

Female parent

B. glandulosa

B. dayi hort. Begonian 14:174, pl. 183. 1947.; B. nigrovenia hort. Linden ex W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 87:pl. 5256. 1861.; B. hidalgensis L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 40:241, pl. 1b–g. 1950. ; B. nigrovenia Regel, Gartenfl. 16:163, pl. 456. 1867.; B. pinetorum A. de Candolle. 1859, Sphalmate.

Male parent

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Female parent

B. ‘Silver Star’

Female parent

B. carolineifolia

B. rotata Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :11. 1853. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864;

Male parent

B. ludicra

B. liebmannii A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):345. 1864. " liebmanni." —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Fieldiana: Bot. 24:174. 1961.; B. reptans Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :5. 1853, non Bentham. 1840.; B. repens Liebmann ex Hemsley, Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. 1:497. 1880 non Lamarck. 1785;

Male parent

B. ‘Speculata’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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