Cultivar

B. ‘Little Alabaster’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Little Alabaster’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2002
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Hannah Serr’
Male Parent: B. ‘Dangling Pearls’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Low, full growing compact cane. The small glossy dark olive leaves cup and overlap. Flowers are a clear solid bright light pink in tight hydrangea-shaped clusters. Very cute and easy to grow, can be trained as a basket. Flowers are very unusual color.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Hannah Serr’

Male parent

B. ‘Dangling Pearls’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Little Alabaster’

Female parent

B. ‘Hannah Serr’

Female parent

B. ‘Kentwood’

B. sceptrum = B. aconitifolia

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. aconitifolia

B. sceptrum hort. ex Rodigas, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangerè 10:253. 1884; B. faureana Linden ex Garnier, Ill. Hort. 42:152, pl. 34. 1895.—Everett, J. New York Bot. Gard. 41:16, pl. 1940.— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):579-80. 2005;

Male parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’

B. ‘Zulu’;

Female parent

B. dichroa

Male parent

B. ‘Elaine’

Unresolved

Male parent

B. ‘Dangling Pearls’

Female parent

B. ‘Lenore Olivier’