Cultivar

B. ‘Bea Roberts’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Bea Roberts’
Originator: Irene Nuss
Date of Origin: 1978
Place: Westchester, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. ‘Orange Supreme’
Synonyms and Comments: Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Sopreme’
Publication Reference: INL; WBHC-WW

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. ‘Orange Supreme’

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

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Bea Roberts’

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

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. ‘Orange Supreme’

Female parent

B. ‘Shasta’

Female parent

B. coccinea

B. rubra hort. ex Irmscher. 1960;

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. dichroa

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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