Cultivar

B. ‘Rose Daggers’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Rose Daggers’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2003
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Cane-like
Female Parent: B. ‘Please Mr. Pease’
Male Parent: B. maculata var. maculata
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Upright growing cane to 2 feet. Long narrow superba-type dark maroon leaves with light silver spots. Leaves are folded up from the center vein and curl down to a pointed tip. Edges are deeply lobed. Flowers are tight ball clusters of dark rose-pink flowers. Flowers are darker in stronger light.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Please Mr. Pease’

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Rose Daggers’

Female parent

B. ‘Please Mr. Pease’

Female parent

B. ‘Lana’

Encanto Lana

Female parent

B. ‘Elizabeth Lockhart’

Male parent

B. unknown

Male parent

B. ‘Lady Molina’

Female parent

B. ‘Jumbo Jet’

Male parent cited as seedling of B. ‘Orange Supreme’

Male parent

B. ‘Sophie Cecile’

B. ‘Sylvia’, commercial name in Australia;

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

B. argyrostima Fischer ex Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Sel. :23, pl. 10. 1821.—Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 2:626. 1825; B. punctata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot.. ed. 2 1:194. 1840.; B. albo-picta; B. aculeata Walpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; Repert. Bot. Syst. 5:767. 1846. —A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):354. 1861. [= B. maculata Raddi var. argentea (Van Houtte) A. de Candolle. 1861. — E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):583. 2005.; B. maculata var. argentea (van Houtte ex Klotzsch) A. de Candolle. 1861;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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