Cultivar

B. ‘John Ingles’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘John Ingles’
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;YBG

Plant

Description: Tall upright growing cane 2 to 3 feet. Leaves are long narrow superba-lobed leaves that are silvery gray with dark green veins. Very showy white flowers with dark pink edge and pink ovaries. Very impressive in or out of bloom.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Please Mr. Pease’

Male parent

B. maculata var. maculata

Ancestry tree

B. ‘John Ingles’

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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