Cultivar

B. ‘Burning Bush’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Burning Bush’
Originator: Naron Stewart
Date of Origin: 1992
Publication Date: 1995
Place: Texas
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Female Parent: B. dipetala var. dipetala
Male Parent: B. u062
Publication Reference: B&K; WBHC-WW

Plant

Description: Tight clusters of pink flowers all year on a nice compact plant. Small, dark coppery, red backed tapered leaves.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Male parent

B. U062

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Burning Bush’

Female parent

B. dipetala var. dipetala

Etymology: referring to the flowers with 2 tepals; B.malabarica Lamarck var. dipetala Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. :128. 1859. —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:655. 1979. —Irmscher, Pareys Blumengart. ed. 2 :78. 1960.; malabarica A. de Candolle. 1864, non Lamarck, 1785.; tuberosa herb. Wight ex Wallich,1831; tuberosa herb. Heyne ex A. de C.,1864 non lamarck,1785; bipetala Loddiges in Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:193. 1840. —Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 9:59. 1841. errore typographico pro dipetala Graham. 1828.; malabarica auct. non Lamarck: A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):392. 1864. —J. Doorenbos, Begonian 67:170. 2000. Circulated incorrectly as ‘Mrs. W. S. Kimball’;u044

Male parent

B. U062

Opinions vary on plant type, this plant often considered a Cane-like - mallet

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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