Cultivar

B. ‘Courage’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Courage’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2003
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous - distinctive foliage
Female Parent: B. masoniana
Male Parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Very full growing with medium sized lightly textured leaves that are deeply lobed light green with an overlay of light green-silver. Leaves vary in color depending on light intensity, in good light leaves blush-pink. Easy to grow and very showy. Flowers are yellow-green on upright spike

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. masoniana

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Courage’

Female parent

B. masoniana

Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Male parent

B. deliciosa

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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