Cultivar

B. ‘Early Frost’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Early Frost’
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. ‘Marian’
Publication Reference: BTL

Plant

Description: Tall upright growing cane to 3 feet. Leaves are long and narrow with deeply sawtooth edge. Leaves are bright green with white splashes. Flowers are large two toned dark pink and white. Very showy even out of bloom.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Please Mr. Pease’

Male parent

B. ‘Marian’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Early Frost’

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. ‘Marian’

Female parent

B. ‘Ricinifolia’

Female 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. barkeri

B. peponifolia A. T. Brongniart, ex F. Cels, Ann. Fl. Pomone :105. 1842.; B. peponifolia A. T. Brongniart ex F. Cels var. beta A. T. Brongniart ex F. Cels, Ann. Fl. Pomone :106. 1842.; B. peponifolia hort.ex Schlechtendal, Linnaea 24:180. 1851.; B. megaphylla A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:133. 1859.; B. macrophylla hort. Berol ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :216. 1855; Begoniac. :96. 1855, pro syn. Gireoudia B. macrophylla Klotzsch var. concolor Klotzsch,1855 —J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:496. 1984.; B. peponifolia hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :216. 1855.;B. peponifolia Visiani ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):341. 1864.;B. macrophylla Klotzsch var concolor (Klotzsch) J. Doorenbos ex F. A. Barkley & J. Golding, Sp. Begoniaceae, ed. 2 :74. 1974. —fide J. Doorenbos in litteris, J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:496. 1984.; B. macrophylla Klotzsch var discolor (Klotzsch) J. Doorenbos ex F. A. Barkley & J. Golding. 1974.—fide J. Doorenbos in litteris [= B. peponifolia Visiani ex A. de Candolle. 1864.] —J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:497. 1984.

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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