Cultivar

B. ‘Black Velvet’

Photos

3 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Black Velvet’
Originator: U. U. Stanford
Date of Origin: 1967
Place: Port Arthur,Tx.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’
Male Parent: B. unknown
ABS No: 240
Publication Reference: B69 a285;ABS; BfBEH 73 1976
Photo References: BfBEH 73 1976

Plant

Other Features: Basket Plant
Sun Tolerance: Morning

Lineage

3 descendants

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Male parent

B. unknown

Ancestry tree

Female parent

Female parent

Female parent

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. mazae var. mazae

Male parent

B. unknown

Descendants

3 recorded children

As female parent

No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.

As male parent

B. ‘Black Moire’

Female parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’

B. ‘Caribbean Corsair’

Female parent: B. nelumbiifolia

B. ‘Dorothy Hawlins’

Female parent: B. ‘Cachuma’

Culture

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