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Cultivar

B. ‘Sir Sterling’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Sir Sterling’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 1992
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Mary Sakamoto’
Male Parent: B. ‘Silvermist’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Plant Habit: Upright
Plant Height: Low to Medium 1m
Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Mary Sakamoto’

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Male parent

B. ‘Silvermist’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Sir Sterling’

Female parent

B. ‘Mary Sakamoto’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Rubra’

Female parent

Male parent

B. ‘Coral Rubra’

Cited as a form of B. coccinea

Male parent

B. ‘Silvermist’

B. ‘Silver Mist’ (incorrect spelling, one word not two)

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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