Cultivar

B. ‘Boom Boom’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Boom Boom’
Originator: Patrick J. Worley
Publication Date: 1984
Place: Vista, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rex Cultorum
Female Parent: B. ‘rex cv.’
Male Parent: B. homonyma
Publication Reference: MLT2

Plant

Description: Small metallic pink leaves suffused with silver on a sturdy, compact plant. Lovely, colorful.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Male parent

B. homonyma

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Boom Boom’

Female parent

B. ‘rex cv.’

Male parent

B. homonyma

sinuata E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1 836, non Wallich ex Meisner. 1836. ; caffra Meisner, Linnaea, 14:502, "1840". 1 841. ; uncinata hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :124. 1854 . ; dregei Otto & Dietrich var. caffra A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):384. 1 864.— Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136. 1961 [= caffra Meisner. 1841.] —Burtt, Notes Roy. Gard. Edinburgh 32:274. 1973. ; dregei Otto & Dietrich var. sinuata A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):384. 1864.— Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136. 1961 [= caffra Meisner. 1841.] —Burtt, Notes Roy. Gard. Edinburgh 32:274. 1973. 1 864; favargeri Rechinger, Ann. K. K. Naturhist. HofMus. 20:33. 1905—Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:136, 1961; [=caffra Meisner var. favargeri Irmscher. 1961.—Hilliard in Ross, Fl. South Afr. 22:141. 1976 ; rudatisii Ir mscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:129. 1961 ; caffra Drege ex A. de Candolle, Prodr.15(1):384 . 1864.; sinuata Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3731. 1839, non Wallich ex Meisner. 1836.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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