Cultivar

B. ‘Thrush’

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Thrush’
Originator: Elsie Frey
Date of Origin: 1948
Publication Date: 1981
Place: Santa Barbara, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. rex
Synonyms and Comments: Probably not a synonym of B. ‘The Thrush’, most likely different cultivars.
Publication Reference: MLT1; B85 r082;
Photo References: The Begonian, Mar 1961;

Plant

Stem Type: Upright

Lineage

1 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. rex

Probably not a synonym of B. ‘The Thrush’, most likely different cultivars.

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Thrush’

Probably not a synonym of B. ‘The Thrush’, most likely different cultivars.

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. rex

Etymology: Latin rex (king), say no more! B. longiciliata Cheng-Yih Wu, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3):271, pl. 17. 1995.

Descendants

1 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Fire Star’

Male parent: B. rex

As male parent

No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.

Culture

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