Cultivar

B. ‘Blue Star’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Blue Star’
Originator: Paul P. Lowe
Date of Origin: 1982
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Lake Park, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Lowe's Star’
Male Parent: B. ‘Morning Star’
Publication Reference: MLT2
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :41. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :10. 1983;

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Lowe's Star’

Male parent

B. ‘Morning Star’

Unresolved

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Blue Star’

Female parent

B. ‘Lowe's Star’

Lowe Star

Female parent

B. ‘Sunderbruchii’

B. heracleifolia var. sunderbruckii;

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. fusca

B. maxima hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854.; B. karwinskyana Liebmann,1853; B. johnstonii Standley ex J. R. Johnston, Cat. Pl. Guatemala :12. 1938, nomen nudum, non Oliver ex J.D. Hooker. 1866. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Fieldiana: Bot. 24:167. 1961.; B. maxima hort. ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):334. 1864;

Male parent

B. ‘Morning Star’

Unresolved

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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