Cultivar

B. ‘Silver Star’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Silver Star’
Originator: Elsie Frey
Date of Origin: 1945
Place: Santa Barbara, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. carolineifolia
Male Parent: B. ludicra
Publication Reference: BEG; B71 r201; A.B.Graf: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants Hardcover, 1978.
Photo References: Murotani, Begonia in Colour :119. 1983; Know Your Begonias, Jack Krempin, ®1993 by Jack Krempin, Krempin Books, Queensland Australia; The Begonian, Oct 1953; The Begonian, Oct 1946; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 157 (268);

Plant

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Lineage

4 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. carolineifolia

Male parent

B. ludicra

Ancestry tree

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;

Descendants

4 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Brocade’

B. ‘Legacy’

B. ‘Sir Percy’

Male parent: B. ‘Speculata’

As male parent

B. ‘Beaumont’

Female parent: B. ludwigii

Culture

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